How long is your commute?

[RabbitJockey]

136 miles daily. The GTD is finally rusting faster than I can wear it out.

If I have done the conversion right, diesel here is £1.38 a litre, which gives $8.55 a gallon. Getting to work here is a royal pain.

wow, i checked your math and its correct.  that's unbelievable, if that were the cost here i think i'd be hiding in a bomb shelter somewhere because people would go absolutely psychotic.

the only difference i could see would be if it's taxed differently?  i know u guys have universal health care...

[TimpanogosSlim]

136 miles daily. The GTD is finally rusting faster than I can wear it out.

If I have done the conversion right, diesel here is £1.38 a litre, which gives $8.55 a gallon. Getting to work here is a royal pain.

wow, i checked your math and its correct.  that's unbelievable, if that were the cost here i think i'd be hiding in a bomb shelter somewhere because people would go absolutely psychotic.

the only difference i could see would be if it's taxed differently?  i know u guys have universal health care...

not to turn this into a political discussion but in the USA we have artificially low consumer commodity prices to enable downward pressure on working class wages.

bread & circuses, basically.

[bbob203]

Ie subsidized gmo crops.

[EcoTX]

I service computers for various state agencies all over the central Texas region, so my commute varies from 0 miles a day to sometimes over 400 miles a day.

Last year I drove 32,655 miles for work all in my 92 ECOdiesel, which just rolled over 400k a few weeks ago.
That's an average of 130.1 miles per working day.  I have every fuel receipt and hand calculated every tank by filling to the same spot on the filler neck every time. 
Thing is dead nuts right at 42 MPG average over those 32k miles, mostly highways at 70-80. 
Lowest tank I've ever recorded in it was 37 MPG (driving into crosswind/headwind with rain for many highway miles) and highest ever was 51 (going slow with a strong tailwind for many highway miles) 
I would not hesitate to drive that car anywhere in North or South America tomorrow.

I recently started driving my dad's 2003 Jetta TDI that I rolled over 300k in. 
He no longer has his 180 mile round trip commute anymore, so it just wasn't getting driven much.  I'm doing all the driving now.
I bought a ScangaugeII for it and that car is amazingly efficient, more than I ever imagined. 
Dad would get about 46-47 every tank out of it no matter what, he never knew about the "ventectomy" mod either so would only get about 5-600 mile tanks before having to refuel.

I drive it like a grandpa 55-60 MPH max and am getting 900-950 miles per vented tank (16-16.5 gallons) out of it.  That's around 55-60 MPG very consistently. 
You just have to have patience and not carry some huge ego on the road when you are driving for maximum MPG's.  Mostly flat Texas highway helps as well.
As long as you stay in the right lane on interstates and move over in the shoulder every now and then to let people pass on two laners, everyone's happy. 
I've never been honked at or had any sort of aggressive gestures thrown my way just for driving slower than everyone else, it's really not a big deal.
I choose to drive the TDI so slow because it is just easier and more capable of getting those extreme MPG figures.
The key really is the Scangauge, it helps 1000% with knowing how to drive for absolute maximum MPG's.  It is scary how accurate it is now that I've run a few tanks through it and got it dialed in.

I get payed tax free income per mile driven, it only makes sense to me to drive a paid off car that gets 40+ MPG's.

Federal rate for 2013 was $0.57 per mile reimbursement.  For 2014 it got bumped down a penny to $0.56 per mile.
Last year 42MPG at an average of $3.50/gal was only $0.08 per mile in fuel costs.
This year if I keep the 55-60MPG trend going all year in the 03, I'll only be paying $0.06 per mile in fuel costs.
With these numbers, diesel could be over $20.00 a gallon and it would still be profitable to drive one!

I've been asking some of my friends and random people lately how much a gallon of gas is and about 4 out of 5 of them tell me "Like 4 dollars or something..."  They don't have a clue!
Then when I get all cynical and griping about how can they be so oblivious to the world around them, they just say something like "I can't help how much it costs, so why should I pay attention?"
I just facepalm.
It just baffles me how so many people don't even know how much a gallon of gas is!  Try asking people yourself, you will be amazed!

Oh but when I mention I drive a diesel car..
ISN'T DIESEL SOOO EXPENSIVE?!?  WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU DRIVE A DIESEL CAR?!?! or THEY MAKE DIESEL CARS?!?! or WHATS DIESEL?!?!
Fools they are...

[RabbitJockey]

i told someone i drive diesels, they wondered if their car was a diesel, i said no, you would definitely know if you had a diesel haha.

[TylerDurden]

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You just have to have patience and not carry some huge ego on the road when you are driving for maximum MPG's.  Mostly flat Texas highway helps as well.
As long as you stay in the right lane on interstates and move over in the shoulder every now and then to let people pass on two laners, everyone's happy.  
I've never been honked at or had any sort of aggressive gestures thrown my way just for driving slower than everyone else, it's really not a big deal....

^^^ Right on. ^^^

Times have changed, tho.  Blatant aggression against slower drivers was common in Michigan, a little over a year ago.  But many truckers are driving slower since then and they can provide political cover if I follow at a polite distance (not drafting).  Passenger cars are more willing to drive slower now too... like when a car exceeding the limit became de-facto permission for others to speed (herd mentality),  now when I drive slower, I see other drivers slowing down. I used to be the only slow car on the road, with the exception of unroadworthy vehicles.

Of course there are still knuckleheads who pass on the right shoulder or exit ramp, because god-forbid they should turn off the cruise for thirty seconds. I see them in the ditch when the road gets icy.

[RabbitJockey]

i just now realized ur username is tyler durden haha.  rule number 1

[bbob203]

I think is real name is Tyler Durden.

[TylerDurden]

Not real... but I've used it so long, I'm too lazy to use something else.

[wolf_walker]

My Father, who got me into VW diesels, used to live in Oklahoma and work out of Louisiana, where I was born and grew up.
On a week, off a week.  He probly wins for longest commute, did it for well over a decade.  When I got older and moved back east,
we used to swap vehicles now and again to try and even out the mileage on them, since I drove a lot but not nearly as much as him. 


Dad has a 30 mile round commute now and drives a Jeep pickup converted to CNG and a Jag coupe with an LT1.

[anto]

53 miles to work takes an hour in the mornings and about an hour and 15 on the way home. I have a company car with free diesel so its not as bad doing the driving, knowing Im not paying for it.

[vanbcguy]

About 8 meters from my bed to my desk.... Or about 4,000 km from Vancouver to Atlanta when I have to come in to the office.

[ToddA1]

6 miles one way.  Even after being plugged in for a few hours, the car never reaches operating temperature when I arrive to work.

-Todd

[ORCoaster]

I wholely agree with EcoTex.  If you are going to drive for mileage you have to be easy on the whole drive, keep yourself out of harms way and monitor everything.

I too have a Scan Gauge on my Ford PU.  Opps did I just let it slip all is not diesel in the house.

I vouche for the accuracy for the MPG once you get the tank fill thing adjusted correctly.  Hard to do here as the attendants are not supposed to top off a tank anymore and so once it clicks off you're full no matter if you can still get 2 more gallons in the tank or not.  They don't want a mess and certianly can't get fined for a spill.  Which by ODEQ standards might be all of 8 oz.

I love that But Diesel is so expensive line.  I generally ask the how much is gas less than the diesel.  Here it runs from 50 to 60 cents less a gallon.  I tell them that at 20 MPG which is what they might be getting I am willing to be paying the extra 60 to go an additional 20 more miles.  Same gallon measure but twice the miles per gallon.  They don't realize that is where the savings are. 

They were even madder when I would tell them I could run my car on "other fuels" that were only costing me 2 bucks a gallon which at the time was about 60 cents less than they were paying for their fuel. 

[Smoker]

my commute is 12 miles one way, and it takes any where from 20-40 minutes 

York sucks!!  My commute used to take me from Lancaster to west York when I lived up there.  Back then I commuted on a KTM rxc620.  (single cylinder, kick-start only, with the kicker on the left.  Full knobbies cruising 75mph down rt. 30....   Yeah!) 



I swear York's light cycle was engineered by a drunken 3rd-grader.


Currently, my shop is 10 miles from my house by road, and it takes me 12 mins.  Or 12 miles by bicycle (via rail trail) and takes me 40 mins.  But my work often takes me to Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, etc to look at/buy cars, so it's not uncommon for me to put 1,000 miles on the Dasher in a week.