| Fuel, travel plans, etc. |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|12:33 pm] |
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| | "Kingdom in the Sky" -- Da Vinci's Notebook | ] |
For years now I've been making changes to cut down on fuel use. I used to live in a rural village and had a commute of more than 10 miles, but about fifteen years ago moved here, cutting my commute to less than 5 miles. A few years after that, I started bicycling in the summer and taking the bus in the winter, cutting my (in our car) commuting total to maybe 5 miles a week. And, of course, since late August, I haven't been commuting at all.
Our fuel purchases gradually dropped, but I wasn't really keeping track, so I don't know when or by how much.
A few months ago, though, one of the local grocery stores started one of those deals where you get discounts in exchange for letting them track your purchases. It's different than most, though, in that what you get is a not a discount on the groceries themselves, but rather a discount on gasoline. The way the rules work, the discounts accumulate until you make a gas purchase, at which point they go back to zero and you have to start accumulating them again. The individual pieces of the discount are tied to specific shopping trips, and expire after 30 days. So, it makes sense to buy gas every 30 days, whether you need it or not.
With that in mind, we went to get gas today. We bought 5.5 gallons, and we got it at a 35-cent-a-gallon discount, bringing the price down to $3.209 per gallon.
I'm reasonably pleased with the idea that we use a bit less than 6 gallons in a typical month. We'll use more next month, though. Our anniversary is coming up, and we'll be going to Turkey Run for a bit of celebratory hiking and a couple of nice meals out. We'll probably visit an art gallery or two as well.
It'll be our 16th anniversary, which (as any software engineer knows) is the 10th in hexadecimal. |
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