{"id":99,"date":"2008-03-12T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/an-experiment.html"},"modified":"2008-03-12T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:42:00","slug":"an-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/an-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

So…we own two vehicles. Dave drives the Toyota Prius<\/a> to\/from work (20 miles per day), while I take the boys around in a Honda Odyssey<\/a> (more than 20 miles per day, usually closer to 50).<\/p>\n

Don’s<\/a> blog now has an RSS feeder streaming his favorite news articles related to Electric (EV)<\/a> and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV)<\/a> vehicles. I also noticed our local Citgo station’s unleaded gas (corner of Penny and Ten Ten Rds.) is going for $3.29\/gallon (look here<\/a> and scroll down to the list of most expensive gas…and YES PAUL, that’s Costco<\/a> with the cheapest gas in the area!).<\/p>\n

It got me thinking: how much gas (read: how much money) could we save if we tried to live with one car for a while…just the Prius?<\/p>\n

Right now we average 1 tank of gas per week for the Prius (about $28), and 1.5 tanks of gas per week for the van (about $75). I wonder if we could do everything in a week on 2 gallons in the Prius?<\/p>\n

Could we save ($28+75) – ($28+$28) = $47 per week? $200 per month? $2400 per year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So…we own two vehicles. Dave drives the Toyota Prius to\/from work (20 miles per day), while I take the boys around in a Honda Odyssey (more than 20 miles per day, usually closer to 50). Don’s blog now has an RSS feeder streaming his favorite news articles related to Electric (EV) and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[23,22,616],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-automobiles","tag-gas-prices","tag-ranting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t