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Check out Costtodrive.com
This is why I hate traveling for work. I’m supposed to be in the air about half way home right now. Instead, I’m sitting in the airport waiting for a flight to arrive from Atlanta so their flight crew can hop over to our plane and fly us to Richmond. Could be worse, of course, we were already on the plane when they decided they needed to do this and at least they let us get off and sit at the gate. I travel so infrequently that I get caught up in the novelty of staying at nice hotels and eating restaurant meals….then something like this happens. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for someone who travels regularly (especially via flying).
"I should rent a car and just drive myself"
Did you ever sit in an airport and wonder how much it would cost to just make the trip by car? Well, a friend of mine turned me on to a pretty cool site the other day called costtodrive.com. It’s a simple and useful site where you can get the approximate cost to drive your particular car to various places around the US.
You start off by selecting the starting and ending points for your trip. Then you select the make and model of your particular auto and it will "galculate" the approximate (obviously) cost to complete the trip. It even takes into account the lowest available price for a gallon of gas along your route and the EPA MPG rating of your car to calculate the total cost. All in all, it’s an interesting little site. Here is how much it would cost for me to drive my wife’s Civic home from Orlando right now.
Now, when he first showed it to me, this was a terribly interesting site as gas cost almost $4 per gallon around here (well, not here in Orlando but back in Virginia). Now that the price is nearly half as much, maybe people won’t care nearly as much about how much it costs to complete various trips. But I would suggest that we don’t let up!
When gas prices were so high, Americans consumed less
When gas prices soared, Americans made real changes to their driving habits. They drove less, cared about things like getting good gas mileage (I even read about hyper-miling), and tried to be more aware of needlessly wasting gas. SUV assembly lines were shot down or retooled to create more efficient cars and even hybrid cars. Overall, consumption dropped significantly (I can’t find the exact % right now).
So why not continue to consume less?
Of course that was mainly financially driven but there is no reason that we all have to change back to our gas guzzling ways. It may not hurt as much at the pump now to fill up your car (at the height, I paid nearly $60 to fill up my minivan, this weekend I filled it up for less than $32), but America is still too dependent on foreign oil. During this election season, there has been much argument back and forth about how to address that dependency but the takeaway here is that we all (ok, most of us) agree that it is a concern. So, make your changes permanent and continue to reduce your personal dependency. Let’s see how far we can get in reducing our overall consumption. Besides, it still saves you money!
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Great resource, hadn’t heard of this website before. It certainly is a good idea to consume less gas – i’m carpooling to do my part!
Like me I love to travel, I a lot specific budget for a gas to consume so its not a burden if I’m having a trip..
I also love to travel that’s why I make sure that I can save while I’m having the pleasure of my vacation.
.-= Edinburgh airport´s last blog ..Travel insurance =-.