Archive for the ‘Cheaper Gas’ Category
With National average of gas at 1.63/gal and 1.43/gal cheaper than a year ago, will you continue your gas saving practice? Will you remind people around you to keep on the good practice of saving gas?
I will continue on my gas-saving practices, just
in case it was to happen again…
I learned many tips from an ebook I have.
It’s in most of the news, it’s on the big gas station sign, and it’s getting cheaper as the voting nears and people take sides. Gas has fallen to about $105 a barrel last time I checked.
Price of gas generally goes up for Memorial Day Weekend ( unofficial start of summer ) and goes back down Labor Day Weekend. Some insist on using the groundhog to tell the transition from one season to the next. All we need is a corner gas station. 
Considering a higher mpg rate and potenially lower maintanence costs, is it cheaper to buy premium gas? How about Mid Grade?
Some cars do get better gas mileage on higher octane fuels but most don’t. If yours does, you have to figure the difference out. If you get 10% better mileage with premium then you only want to use it if the price difference is 10% or less.
Some exceptions are older cars that require higher octane and don’t have knock sensors. If your car calls for premium and you put regular in it but notice a knocking sound then you should use the higher octane. The knocking will do damage to the engine in the long haul.
My car has a knock sensor and calls for 90 or better octane. I found no difference in gas mileage with regular so I use it. I have had no problems at all.
Shouldn’t it be the othe way around? But its not. Mid-grade is cheaper than the lowest grade for some reason…why is that?
Because Nebraska has corn. And ethanol is made of Corn.
lower fuel taxes, due to the government subsidies on the ethanol
I know that ethanol is less efficient than gas, therefore you have to fill up more often and get less mpg. So my question is, is there some type of formula to tell if it is indeed cheaper to use E85 as opposed to gas by their current price gap?
The typical decrease in mileage when using E-85 is 27%. To calculate your mileage on E-85 take your current mileage and multiply by .27. The number you get from that you will then subtract from your current mpg.
Example: 15mpg (gas)X0.27= 4.05
15-4.05= 11.95mpg (E-85)
Now get the prices for both gas and E-85. Choose a distance for instance how many miles you drive a week. Divide that by your mpg, you’ll need to do it twice once with gas mpg and once with E-85 mpg. This will tell you how many gallons you will use for that distance
Example: Distance: 300 miles
Gas mpg: 15mpg
300 miles/15mpg= 20 gallons of gas
Distance: 300 miiles
E-85 mpg: 11.95mpg
300 miles/11.95mpg= 25 gal (rounded) of E-85
After you figure out how many gallons you will use on gas and on E-85, get the prices for both gas and E-85. Now multiply the cost of gas by the gallons of gas, then do the same with the cost of E-85 and the gallons of E-85. This will tell you how much you will spend on each to go a given distance.
Example: Gas: $3.98
Gallons: 20
$3.98 X 20gal= $79.60
E-85: $3.29
Gallons: 25
$3.29 X 25gal= $82.25
Based on the prices I used, which I went to http://www.e85prices.com, and got an average price of both gas and E-85. It is cheaper to use gas. They also have a calculator on their website that you can use to calculate what is cheaper.
I have a gas line in the house already so I thought it might be a better fit and cheaper to get a gas one, but not sure how much it cost to have an electric stove installed compared to a gas one.
Are there any things I should know about if I want to place a cooking stove in the basement?
The installation cost would be about the same. Having said that, there are a few variables. If you go with gas, you will need to have it vented to the outside. If you have a way to vent it, the gas is probably going to be cheaper to operate. There are some ventless gas heaters on the market, but I would not trust them in a tight space such as a basement. If you do not have a way to vent the gas, you will have to go with the electric. We recently needed to add heat to a similar space, and bought an electric fireplace, which has a heater built into it. Works like charm, and we have the added beauty of the fireplace. (New ones look very real). Good luck.
I have a new build townhome which came with an electric flat surface stove. When I purchased they said my unit was set up for gas as well as electric. Is it cheaper to run a gas stove as opposed to an electric one? Not really a fan on the flat surface but if it cheaper hey!
I can’t speak for the whole World, and I don’t know what country you are in. But at least in the US, natural gas costs significantly less than electricity.
Plus, gas stoves are much more efficient and precise when cooking. If you need to have a lower temp on your burner, you just lower the fire on a gas stove, while an electric stove just sends less current to the heating element. That element does not cool down instantly, so the temperature remains higher longer.
Long story short gas > electric.
I want to know if it would be cheaper to pay an electricicty bill or cheaper to have a generator run instead. Which would be cheaper and by how much? Sources?
I live in Bradenton,FL-USA.
Paying an electricity bill will be much cheaper and cleaner. The utility companies get their electricity from numerous sources, some of which are clean, renewable sources. They also offer economy of scale far greater than what you can achieve on your own. Otherwise, everyone would be running generators.
Finally, have you seen the price of gas lately? I don’t see it coming down any time soon.
We spend most of the time in our living room where we have a gas fire. I wondered if it is cheaper to run the gas fire, or to put the gas central heating on (which heats the whole flat). We don’t need the whole flat to be warm most of the time, so it’s really a question of what’s cheaper to run, gas central heating or a single gas fire. Thanks!
I would guess that the fire is the cheapest but why don’t you read the gas meter before and after a trial to see which is the cheapest. It all depends on your pattern of use.
I am planning to buy a BBQ grill this summer. We are two at home and sometimes expect a few more couples. We dont want a very big or expensive grill. Charcoal is a strict no-no and Natural Gas Grill is not an option in the rented apartment. So its come down to Propane and Electric.
Gotta be propane.
I have a basic, entry-level propane Weber, and it has "Flav-R-Bars" (how hokey does that sound?!) but they really do add flavor. They are like an upside-down V, and meat juices and fat fall on them and make smoke, which flavors the meat.
