When the recent gas prices were at their highest, what was the percentage of pay that you spent (matched with pay period – – month’s gas vs a month’s pay for instance).
Do mention if you actually use your vehicle for your work (like Uber) which would make it different than the regular person who commutes and gets their groceries etc.
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Very little these days, I work from home and hardly ever drive more than like three or four miles round trip. I got gas last week and I think that was the first time I’d filled up my tank since June.
A couple tanks worth a month so 3-5%. When I travel for work I bill the miles to customer so those miles I wouldn’t count anyway.
About 6% for me. Four tanks on one car and about two on the other.
<1% apart from roadtrips.
The half tank of gas in my car is from when I filled up in early August, so September will be 0%.
Somewhere around 3%.
I probably fill up every other week and so does my wife for an average of $80? So $320/~$20,000 is like 1.6%
About 1%.
Around 1.5%
Was probably 5-10% at its highest.
About 7%, but that is making the assumption that the prices stayed at their absolute highest for an entire pay period, but they didn’t
Gas is one of the few things in the US that you get the entire price (including tax) displayed to the consumer. It also makes it one of the easiest taxes to raise, which many states have done over the last several years. Indiana even indexed it to raise every year due to cost of living and inflation lol. Though they put a cap on it so the tax won’t really raise 8% or whatever.
Honestly it isn’t something I think too much about. We barely use the car during the week and we can make a tank last a long time. It kind of sucked when prices were hitting how $4s and low $5s but that was temporary.
I wfh 3 days a week and only get gas once a month. I have a hybrid with a fairly small gas tank so it’s less than 1%.
I live in the suburbs outside NYC, walking distance to many things and the trains. I spent about $30/month at its worst. I also work from home.
Not entirely sure, but something like 5%, I think. Never really looked at in terms of percentage. That’s at least a tank a week for my car (at least 80 miles of commute per day) and a tank every other week for my wife’s car with a larger tank.
Well, I did a twoish week 4,600 mile road trip this summer so I spent about a fifth of my take home pay during that two week pay period on gas.
My household spends somewhere on the order of 1% currently. I’ve got a desk job with a short commute, wife commutes in a work-provided vehicle with work-provided fuel. It’s really not a major part of our budget.
Very little
Very little. My wife and I both work from home and when I do need to drive for work, I get to expense the mileage.
0%, I live in Manhattan and don’t own a car.
Less than a percent for regular usage at current prices.
I have a Ford F-150 with a 36 gallon tank, but I only fill it up every six weeks or so. (I work at home, and most of my miles is driving either to the grocery store, driving our kayaks to the lake, or driving my recumbent bike to the greenway for exercise.)
As a percentage of my after-tax pay–perhaps 1.5%-ish?
We definitely spend more on groceries.
Hell, I just spent more upgrading my iPhone.
If suddenly gas became $20/gallon or something, it’s easy enough for me to start and stop my bike rides at home rather than driving to the greenway. And I have to assume it’d be safer at $20/gallon because the kids wouldn’t be using our street to race down–which is why I drive my recumbent to the greenway.)
For *my POV*, I purchase *one tank of gas per month*. % wise its insignificant. And no this is not a hybrid or EV of any sort. Its a gas vehicle. *I have no life, I go very few places.*
*For work*, my vehicle is provided by the agency, and fueled at the local agency fuel station it runs on LNG.
None, my employer comps my gas.