I'm leaving tomorrow for a trip from Akron Ohio to Fort Pierce Florida and used the GasBuddy Trip Cost Calculator today to estimate the gas cost for the round trip.

It was astounding and annoying to discover that gas prices drop a lot after leaving the Akron area. For example: the price of gas near where I live was $3.89 for regular this morning. According to GasBuddy, it's $3.25 in Bastian VA, $3.06 in Rock Hill SC, and $3.22 in Richmond Hill GA.

In fact, according to GasBuddy, gas prices are 35 cents a gallon just twenty miles due south of here...

This is all truly disgusting: the economy in northern Ohio is a disaster. There are few decent jobs here now, home foreclosures all over the place, and homeless people begging on street corners.

Given all this, why are gas prices nearly a dollar a gallon more here than they are 500 miles south? That's a question I'd really know the answer to...
posted by gcmsguru at 5:28 AM PST May 19 - 3 comments

my awesome 1992 geo prizm [more inside]
posted by destraight at 12:19 PM PST May 9 - 2 comments

Hello All,
I thought you might be interested in a current hypermiling challenge ('til end of May) on a new platform, Luum (dot com), that lets you create friendly challenges to motivate participation and sharing for real world impact.

Our objective for this challenge is to get people to try some basic hypermiling techniques, but all levels welcome. Participation is free and we'd love to have you try it out.

Thanks,

Ann Thorpe [more inside]
posted by vanann at 3:26 PM PST May 5 - 0 comments

Hey, I'm new on fuelly, having just bought a new car, and I am having a strange confusion with how this works...

When I got the car, I put in £30/22.5l of petrol, and drove about 180 miles.
I then put in another £30/22.5l of petrol, and then on fuelly I entered the following details:
"distance 180 miles, 22.5litres of fuel"

Today, after another 185miles, I went and actually filled up my tank to the brim (39.14litres). I went into fuelly and entered:
distance since last fuelup - 185miles
amount of fuel - 39.14 litres

...and it comes up with a fuel economy of 26mpg. Which is incorrect, because what I had actually done was 185miles on 22 litres, not 185miles on 39 litres which seems to be what it is calculating from.

Am I supposed to wait until the tank is empty again, and enter that mileage figure into fuelly with the "39..14litres" figure?
posted by nirurin at 7:42 AM PST April 23 - 8 comments

How do I enter first fuel up after signing up? [more inside]
posted by nxtiak at 4:43 AM PST April 19 - 3 comments

This app lets you send your fuel ups via text message very easily. Just choose the phone number to use (US, UK, Canada) and set up your different vehicles and text message shortcuts once and you're good to go. You can then send fuel ups very easily even without a data connection: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/fuelly-sms/94175b1e-36a5-4199-b516-ee58aa4eeaf5
posted by northernlights20 at 8:54 PM PST April 18 - 1 comments

So does anyone have any experience with these ultragauges? My 06 Accord doesn't have MPG in the display, and I understand these can track running MPG as well as average. I think that would be convenient to extending mileage, but I need to justify the expense. Also, on 2 forums I read some folks complained that these things drained their batteries when not driven daily. Anybody have that experience?
posted by dtwjr at 7:33 PM PST April 18 - 9 comments

Fuelly is a great site, really helps me keep track of my fuel costs. But there's one major flaw as far as I can tell. Its the fact that it requires a full tank to calculate the MPG's.

This is not a problem for me, one of my cars has a 4.4 gallon tank, the other has a 7.7 gallon tank. But here in the UK, fuel is over $10 a gallon and I cant think of one person in my town, friends or family, that ever fills thier tank when fueling up. On average people just put $15 to $25 worth in at any given time. As mentioned, the main reason being that fuel is expensive and people simply cant afford to fill thier cars, another reason is that cars here are obviously more economical, even two gallons should last around 120 miles in most modern cars. And then there's the odd person that feels filling thier tank is adding weight, therefore affecting thier MPG's. All valid points, but just goes to show, that fuelly cant or wont be used by many people for these reasons.

Discuss!
posted by Draigflag at 1:25 PM PST April 10 - 27 comments

I been getting since my first full tank of gas between 11-16 mpg and 17 mpg top on HWY driving at 55-60 mph. My stop and go commute is 3 miles but takes like 15 minutes time due to lights. Dealership performed oil change new filter 2 new tires shaved rotors alignment and maintenance less than 700 miles ago. I been using Shell 86 regular and plus to Sunoco 87 regular which gets me 62,68 and 95 miles on trip meter from 5.550g, 5.265g,5.716g of gas filled in the tank. So consistent amount used and same gas stations used. Took it to the dealership and had a full diagnostics and nothing of course came up. No engine lights no maintenance lights are coming up on the car. I have an ultragauge coming in tomorrow via mail. My hwy commute was 55-60 mph one at 50 miles of traveling and other one was 20 miles of travel and only saw 16-17 mpg avg come up. Now the weird thing is when I go down to empty gas tank light then fill it up and drive I get about 23mpg-20 mpg but then as I drive more than 5 miles it drops down to 18 mpg then by next day with additional 3 miles to work I get 15-16 mpg. Then averages later to 13-15 mpg till empty. I have no leak in the gas tank nor do I hear sounds from the engine. How is it I have the worst miles per gallon Camry in the United States??

I reseted my ECU by taking off the negative battery terminal for 30+ minutes and wiped it clean before starting my fuelly.com mpg tracking. If your skeptical on my driving habits I came form a Camry LE 1995 V4 130HP my first car and never really pass 1500-2000 rpms because I loved my car and didn't want to beat on it. It was 18 years old and never let me down across 3000 miles to CALI and 3000 miles back with 157,000 miles. Anyhow if anyone can enlighten me how to get at least to 19-20 mpg from their own experience please post a reply. I been losing a lot of sleep over this and love this car so much even though I'm not a car enthusiast. But efficiency and reliability is very important to me and finding the answer to this low mileage issue is priority. I drive very conservatively and even glide and feather the accelerator drive an average of 25-30 miles per hour city to 55-60 on hwy (only go 5 miles above speed limits, yes I'm that guy you pass all the time and I stay away from the speed lanes.). I keep my RPM between 1500-2000 rule and I'm seeing 12-13 mpg on my display. Even with the extra weight in the front with a V6 I keep my acceleration lower than my previous 4 cyl 95 Camry LE. Thanks in advance for any helpful input you anyone can give me. [more inside]
posted by cabbit75 at 7:37 PM PST April 2 - 76 comments

Our Energi MPGe's have steadily increased from 65mpg when we first purchased in November, to the last tank which averaged 152 mpg, not that Fuelly will update my numbers, which is another topic altogether. My question is, how many of those listed on Fuelly as C-Max Energi's are actually Energis? Given the numbers (30 mpg avg?) on some of them, I'm wondering if they've mistakenly picked the wrong vehicle type, and are regular, non-plug-in hybrids. We would have to never plug in and floor it in the mountains to get 30mpg with the Energi.
posted by TeslaWannabe at 9:35 AM PST March 27 - 8 comments

Interesting Kickstarter project about taking older vehicles and increasing their MPG.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2135996394/aint-fuelin
posted by andyrobo at 6:33 AM PST March 25 - 3 comments

Thought i'd share 2013's top 5, non hybrid economical cars. [more inside]
posted by Draigflag at 9:55 AM PST March 4 - 15 comments

First Fuel up - entry for 'miles since last fuel up'

So Ive just filled my car up - have set the trip to zero - its now asking for miles since last fuel up - there wasn't one - so what do I enter, to stop me getting silly states ?
posted by kingbug at 10:38 AM PST March 2 - 3 comments

2011 Grand Cherokee V8 isn't getting anywhere near the average mileage on Fuelly. I am averaging 11.6 MPG. Any ideas? Is it the cold, how I drive or should I check something mechanical?
posted by thehorde at 10:12 AM PST March 2 - 13 comments

Can you guys provide us a way to search for driver's from your area (province/territory or state) therefore having a better idea what people from your area are getting for mileage ??? [more inside]
posted by MatrixDom at 5:25 PM PST March 1 - 5 comments

Just filled up, and they gave me regular when I asked for premium. Should I run the regular gas down before I refill, or run it to half the tank to diffuse the regular gas with the premium my engine recommends?
posted by woodysweats at 7:30 AM PST February 28 - 11 comments

Hypermiling seems like a good idea at first glance.
I'm sure it saves gas but what about the wear and tear on battery, starter and other mechanical devices used when having to restart so much more frequently? Over the life of a car if hypermiling means you had to replace 1 more starter or an additional battery would you save money?
For example - You stop at a red light that you know is a longish one so you turn the car off. Well if you commute in the city/suburbs that might apply 3 to 4 times a day. That's a lot of cranking on that starter, key and battery and it has to wear them out quicker. What do you think?
posted by ChiGray08crv at 5:01 AM PST February 27 - 7 comments

Hwy versus city driving is really subjective unless you keep extraordinarily accurate records of some sort (I don't) - and really of limited value. What might be more useful and objective is to replace that % value with the car's reported Avg Speed. Most cars can report this these days - and it seems likely this would actually give a clearer picture of mileage along a spectrum of city/hwy driving combinations than the gross % estimate. Thoughts?
posted by ekobres at 7:53 AM PST February 24 - 5 comments

I've always wondered when "winter formula" gas season ends. It's never announced as far as I know, essentially a secret.

I saw this story about gas prices, but this quote caught my eye: "The region, she said, is also in the middle of annual refinery maintenance, slowing production before they switch to summer gasoline formulas. "The rest of the country doesn't move to the cleaner burning and more expensive summer fuels until late February or March," she said."

Source: http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2013/02/oregon_washington_drivers_face.html

Has anyone in Oregon and/or Washington recently noticed better MPG because "winter gas" is being phased out?
posted by 740dan at 4:52 PM PST February 12 - 5 comments

My snow tires are apparently slightly smaller than my OE summer wheels...
My speedo reads 100km/h when GPS indicates 95...
5% error.

How is this effecting my mileage and can I change something in my profile to adjust for the difference?

Thanks
posted by wungun at 7:40 AM PST February 10 - 7 comments

Does anybody know the real truth? [more inside]
posted by Draigflag at 12:35 PM PST February 8 - 11 comments

I have a 2013 Impreza Sport and I am under the estimated mpg (27-36 )of what I should be getting. I drive a lot of hwy milage and I would expect to be closer to the middle of the est mpg, however I am barely at the beginning.
My question is if anyone else is having this issue? Of course I am using fuelly with the true milage between tanks and not what my car computer states, although it seems to be close.
posted by Skippybingo at 8:40 PM PST February 3 - 29 comments

how to add city VS Hwy graph? i can seem to find the option to add it
posted by jalberdi99 at 7:05 AM PST January 28 - 1 comments

Fiats latest version of the Panda 4x4 gets up to 65 MPG with low emissions. [more inside]
posted by Draigflag at 2:18 AM PST January 28 - 0 comments

How can I increase the MPG in a 2011 VW CC 4cyl/manual?
I noticed some members with the same vehicle are getting in excess of 31 mpg. Wondering if they can share what may be helping them to get this consistent high MPG with this engine. Thanks!
posted by jodebg at 7:12 AM PST January 5 - 4 comments