Originally Posted by antarius

For the life I've had this car (91 weeks), I've put on over 60000 miles.

That equates to 659.3 miles per week. At 25MPG and an average of $1.75/gallon (which is a low guestimation by the way, I'm sure it averages to closer to $2.00 a gallon), that comes out to $46.15 per week in gasoline, or $4,199.74 over the course of 91 weeks.

Most of that was because I had a girlfriend who lived in San Francisco, about 60 miles away from me.

Now that I dumped her, I drive about 350 miles per week, about 200 commuting and another 150 on the weekends.

At 25MPG that comes out to around $29.40 a week in gasoline - at an average of $2.10 a gallon (which is probably the average it's been over the last month and a half here), or over the course of the next 91 weeks $2,675.4

Moral of the story? Don't get a girlfriend who lives 60 miles from you and doesn't have a car.