Any idea what you spend a month on gas?
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Cost wise, I don't know, fuel wise, about 40 gallons a month for my car, about 30 for the wife's van.
I'm paying US$4.28 (**7.72) per U.S gallon for 100 RON fuel.
I don't drive much since I'm at school... on average... $60 per tank... but that's usually once a month... I expect that to increase once I move to my new apartment.
I don't know. I don't want to know.
The wife has agreed to travel more in the xB and less in the Ford Truck. I'll be spending about the same as I promised the wife the difference in cost.
At least that money will go to China and not the Middle East.
At least that money will go to China and not the Middle East.
For me, it's been about $200/month lately. My wife isn't driving as much since she doesn't work since the baby. That helps a bit, but we're now driving the minivan everywhere we go together, instead of my car (a coupe) like we used to, since it's a heck of lot easier to get the baby in and out of the minivan.
About $8k/month for my fleet of 7 taxis. A 10 cent/L price hike costs me $1k/month and it's up 35 cents from 2 years ago.
Latest numbers are in: $354 in last cycle.
Last year I spend between $2200~$2300 on fuel.
This year with liter over a dollar I expect $2600~2700 bucks.
I can't really calculate monthly as summer time driving June 1 to Sept 1 is cut in 1/2
This year with liter over a dollar I expect $2600~2700 bucks.
I can't really calculate monthly as summer time driving June 1 to Sept 1 is cut in 1/2
The current month's number is $277.
I think I spend around $100-120 per month on gas.
My gas bill is about $250 for 2 cars.
My every day comute is 64 miles round trip.
Use to be 12 miles round trip. However, the cost of housing force me to move far, far away.
Refuse to pay $650,000.00 for 4 bedroom vs.
$300,000.00 where I am now.
Ahh.. such as live.
My every day comute is 64 miles round trip.
Use to be 12 miles round trip. However, the cost of housing force me to move far, far away.
Refuse to pay $650,000.00 for 4 bedroom vs.
$300,000.00 where I am now.
Ahh.. such as live.
Very Smart.
In my very humble opinion the wave of the future might be Window A/C units just built into the wall..easily replacable..put the cooling where you need it and cool only the space you need. Energy efficiencies over 10 and they last for at least 8 years.
Four 6000 BTU units will do 2000 sq feet and cost 1000 bucks. No calling the A/C man. Breaks? Throw it away and buy a new one for about the cost of a service call.
I have one unit built in. I'm planning on cutting 2 more holes in the house this winter to get rid of them in the window..
Yes, but the noise is killing good night sleep.
best solution is duckless AC units.
best solution is duckless AC units.
JHZR2
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Dima,
Thats why I cant move back home to Rutherford, though I would like to.
Fortunately, I work in Phila, and so the houses in NJ on the Phila. suburbs are more reasonable... Thats why I could buy a house in Collingswood.
JMH
Thats why I cant move back home to Rutherford, though I would like to.
Fortunately, I work in Phila, and so the houses in NJ on the Phila. suburbs are more reasonable... Thats why I could buy a house in Collingswood.
JMH
JHZR2
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My fiancee's parents use Mitsubishi "Mr. Slim" units in their house (in the USVI). They cant run ducting through the reinforced homes down there (and under the house is the cistern).
Mr. Slim would require a call to the AC man, but its like a very small central AC condensor, with a pipe to a wall unit for only one space, which has the evaporator and air blowing components... They have been very reliable down there.
Problem is you buy one for each space you want to cool...
We havea big in wall 'window type' AC, running on 220 in our living room. It does a good job.
Our window ACs have a 'quiet' setting, which if the room is cooled prior to bed, then the ac is set to this operation, is quiet and comfortable for sleeping al night in the hottest weather. My parents have the same thing.
JMH
Mr. Slim would require a call to the AC man, but its like a very small central AC condensor, with a pipe to a wall unit for only one space, which has the evaporator and air blowing components... They have been very reliable down there.
Problem is you buy one for each space you want to cool...
We havea big in wall 'window type' AC, running on 220 in our living room. It does a good job.
Our window ACs have a 'quiet' setting, which if the room is cooled prior to bed, then the ac is set to this operation, is quiet and comfortable for sleeping al night in the hottest weather. My parents have the same thing.
JMH
I can't believe you "Joisey" boys could possibly use more air conditioner hours than us "down" here. Our AC's are on pretty much from the end of April until early October. You'd have to pretty much run the #ell out of a window unit full time in order to cool off all the square footage. What's the point in cooling one room off and not the others? Thermodynamic flow alone will almost be impossible to keep a room cool, like around the mid-70's, all the time. Do you live in just one room? Opening and closing the doors will result in a lot of cooling losses. I'm sorry, I've had both set ups, window units and central units, while living in Guam, Georgia, Tennessee, Hawaii and now Oklahoma, that a central unit is the only way to go, period.
JHZR2
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Closing doors is an amazing thing... it keeps cool inside, and is hot outside. With a window ac on, a room can get VERY cold, relatively quick...
Open windows and fans do quite well elsewhere... with AC augmentation in the LR where we spend lots of time. You have a window unit in most of the rooms where you spend time... for most folks it isnt that many rooms... we have an ac in each BR and the LR. Is there any point whatsoever to air conditioning the bathroom? the kitchen? the front hall? I dont know... but the better portion of people living in any established community with homes over 50 years old somehow manage...
Somehow people survived before central air.
Im just glad that Im cooling off less space... and my bills have been priving the cost savings, even though the house is a lot bigger than the apartment.
My grandparents have just one window AC in a very large, stately old NJ home. They like to sit out on their screened front porch, and they eat out there and everything. They only use the AC when it is a heat spell in the worst of the summer. Somehow they survive.
I have realized that living in central AC makes me dependent upon it... My tolerance for heat changes depending on where Ive lived...
I have noted that there are differences though... I was down in dallas a month ago... and it was HOT. We might have 115 on our back deck at 3pm in the afternoon (this is common at my house), but go around the front, and you have 80 in the shade. Down in dallas, when its "90", its 90+ in the shade, and hotter elsewhere. Id venture that Oklahoma is similar. Doesnt mean that window AC units wouldnt work fine there, but if I was in Dallas, I dont think I could stand to live without central AC... geography dictates to some extent what you can easily live with... "luxury" dictates the rest...
JMH
[ June 27, 2006, 02:39 PM: Message edited by: JHZR2 ]
Open windows and fans do quite well elsewhere... with AC augmentation in the LR where we spend lots of time. You have a window unit in most of the rooms where you spend time... for most folks it isnt that many rooms... we have an ac in each BR and the LR. Is there any point whatsoever to air conditioning the bathroom? the kitchen? the front hall? I dont know... but the better portion of people living in any established community with homes over 50 years old somehow manage...
Somehow people survived before central air.
Im just glad that Im cooling off less space... and my bills have been priving the cost savings, even though the house is a lot bigger than the apartment.
My grandparents have just one window AC in a very large, stately old NJ home. They like to sit out on their screened front porch, and they eat out there and everything. They only use the AC when it is a heat spell in the worst of the summer. Somehow they survive.
I have realized that living in central AC makes me dependent upon it... My tolerance for heat changes depending on where Ive lived...
I have noted that there are differences though... I was down in dallas a month ago... and it was HOT. We might have 115 on our back deck at 3pm in the afternoon (this is common at my house), but go around the front, and you have 80 in the shade. Down in dallas, when its "90", its 90+ in the shade, and hotter elsewhere. Id venture that Oklahoma is similar. Doesnt mean that window AC units wouldnt work fine there, but if I was in Dallas, I dont think I could stand to live without central AC... geography dictates to some extent what you can easily live with... "luxury" dictates the rest...
JMH
[ June 27, 2006, 02:39 PM: Message edited by: JHZR2 ]
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