Miles Per Gallon
June 20, 2008 by Steve Hong
Filed under Conservation
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How can you decide on which vehicle is best for you? Is Miles Per Gallon a good way to compare vehicles?
Maybe. Looking at Miles Per Gallon will give you an indication of how efficient a vehicle is. There is one downside, however. When you compare a car that gets 35MPG vs one that gets 48MPG there seems to be a lot of difference. But if you take the number of gallons used in a typical year at each of those ratings, you’ll see that the difference isn’t as much as the numbers indicate. Running at 35MPG at about 15,000 miles per year, you would burn through 428 gallons of fuel. At 38MPG, you would burn 394. That difference at $4 per gallon is $136 per year. Read more
