Today, are many drivers still able to fill their gas tanks like in the past?

The last time I willingly filled a gas tank all the way up is when the ex-wife was taking my kids on vacation and I had borrowed her car.

Half full all the time now and I think I am treating her (by that I mean my motor vehicle, not my ex).

I don’t see how buying less gas but buying it more often is saving anything. It’s just more trips to the gas station for what turns out to be the same expenditure. Why go twice to spend $40 when I’m going to spend the $40 anyway?

So I fill up every time. But I try to use less gas whenever it’s possible to cut back. Not making unnecessary trips is one way.

I use a credit card and never look at the bill. Well, ok, I look at it, but I don’t take it in. In any case, it has nothing to do with cash on hand and frankly, buying gas is just as small a portion of my budget as it always has been. If anything, it was a much greater concern back then, when I had no income. Or little income.

We pay what we can afford. Some days it’s $12, others it’s $20. Rarely do we fill it all the way.

I’ve actually saved money doing it this way since prices fluctuate so often. The price can rise and fall several times a week. Why spend $30 to fill your tank if the price will be $.12 cheaper two days later? We only live 2½ miles from a gas station, so it’s not like we are going out of our way to save money.

@jonsblond what you are referring to is an investment strategy called dollar cost averaging. You are very wise to be doing it this way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging

I fill the tank about once a week. The cheapest gas is about 10 miles out of my way, so to make the trip count I only go when I need to fill it.

I just plug-in my golf cart every night. I love your thinking @jonsblond. Very smart.

I put $6.55 worth in my scooter just this afternoon, that filled it to the tippy top and it will probably last me about 2.5 weeks. I love my scooter!

The Citroen has a 42 litre tank and we usually fill it about every 6 weeks, it will go almost 1000k on a fill up. It is diesel

The toyota is the killer. It is petrol and LP gas. We can go about 1200k on a fill up (both) but it costs about $150.00. We only use it for business.

I fill my tank, I make the trip to the cheapest station around when I need to do so and it lasts me two weeks because I don’t travel far from home to work or any of the local shops.

The dollar comparisons are not very useful. You should rather ask:

How many minutes does the average American have to work to fill an X gallon tank? Today? Last year? Ten years ago? Thirty years ago? Sixty years ago?

An interesting comparison would also be the projection of both gasoline price increase and minimum wage increase over time.

It is very rare that I fill my car up with fuel. I usually can only afford to put £10 in at a time.

What most people don’t know is that 92 octane has 8% (with 89octane being a whopping 12%) inert ingredients and most of that evaporates from daily heat from driving and even sitting and escapes as dew in mornings when you first start up. Minutely you loose a percentage of your fuel every day over a period of time.. In real time it computes to more cost per gallon than even advertised.

Gas is still much cheaper in the States compared to most places in Canada. We can easily spend $80 to $90 filling up our 75 litre van.

I fill up every time, but that’s usually 9 to10 gallons, and that usually lasts me about two weeks.

Just returned from America and couldn’t believe how cheap fuel was compared to here in the UK.