Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Random Chart Day: My Car

I've owned my car for two years now. Here's how my mileage has looked over the life of the car:

Here's the raw data, which can be paged and sorted as tabular data is wont to be.

Date	Gas (gal)	Cost ($/gal)	Total Miles (mi)	MPG
5/16/2012	16.9	3.87	419	24.5
6/7/2012	15.4	3.6	744	21.1
6/18/2012	16.6	3.54	1119	22.59
7/1/2012	13.2	3.47	1424	23.11
8/9/2012	16.7	3.7	1787	21.74
8/29/2012	17	3.77	2153	21.53
9/16/2012	11.2	3.85	2385	20.71
10/3/2012	13.8	3.85	2698	22.68
10/24/2012	16.6	3.8	3040	20.6
11/9/2012	12.4	3.51	3272	18.71
11/24/2012	14.5	3.43	3602	22.76
12/20/2012	16.3	3.29	3910	18.9
1/9/2013	16.8	3.46	4259	20.77
1/23/2013	9.9	3.49	4461	20.4
2/4/2013	14.2	3.56	4745	20
2/24/2013	14.1	3.86	5014	19.08
3/7/2013	5.8	3.87	5119	18.1
3/10/2013	8.3	3.59	5341	26.75
3/27/2013	15.6	3.79	5690	22.37
4/17/2013	15.6	3.6	6019	21.09
5/14/2013	16.6	3.7	6349	19.88
5/25/2013	12.6	3.4	6621	21.59
6/13/2013	15.8	3.68	6956	21.2
6/28/2013	13.4	3.71	7271	23.51
7/13/2013	12.6	3.71	7555	22.54
7/20/2013	10.8	3.77	7838	26.2
8/11/2013	12.4	3.77	8074	19.03
8/27/2013	16.6	3.55	8452	22.77
9/15/2013	14.7	3.47	8766	21.36
10/6/2013	12.4	3.6	9028	21.13
10/21/2013	15.3	3.37	9349	20.98
11/8/2013	11.9	3.35	9577	19.16
11/14/2013	7.1	3.18	9731	21.69
11/20/2013	13.3	3.29	10078	26.09
12/6/2013	14.2	3.39	10407	23.17
12/18/2013	12.2	3.37	10649	19.84
12/30/2013	11.6	3.44	10918	23.19
1/20/2014	12.7	3.44	11143	17.72
2/11/2014	14	3.36	11393	17.86
3/11/2014	13	3.46	11618	17.31
3/21/2014	11.3	3.6	11864	21.77
4/1/2014	7	3.64	11998	19.14
4/6/2014	14.2	3.31	12407	28.8
4/24/2014	15.7	3.7	12756	22.23
5/11/2014	16.2	3.72	13119	22.41

Lessons Learned:

I drive less than 7000 miles per year.
The average price of gas has decreased to $3.58 per gallon.
On average, I go about 291 miles before filling up.
My MPG has improved to an average of 21.5 miles per gallon. The previous record MPG (on our Waynesboro trip) has been broken by our Greenbrier trip (28.8 MPG).
It has cost me $2.28 per mile to drive this car, including gas and the initial purchase cost.

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