193,500 and some interesting numbers

HAL crossed over 193,500 today - and yes, here I am posting again.

One of the few things in life I'm OCD about is writing down every time I get gas. I write down the date, miles driven, number of gallons put in and cost of this gas. So, since I totally fill up HAL every time I go to the gas station, I am able to get a good read on how my gas mileage is doing.

In almost 8 years since I started doing this, I have only missed one gas tank... and that was in 2008 and was somewhere in the 200 mile on the tank range. Otherwise, I have written down every trip to the gas station since I took possession of HAL in late April, 2003. Every one of these is written down in the same tiny little notebook I keep in the center console of HAL.

Any guesses on total amount of $$$$ spent to fuel HAL for 193,000 miles? Answer some other day...

Some Miles per Gallon numbers...the number improves every year - but each year I do more and more highway miles :) Total miles per year according to gas stats...coming some other post. For now enjoy...

Total Overall Average Miles per Gallon since 4/2003: 27.14 mpg

MPG By Year

2003: 22.21
2004: 23.27
2005: 25.43
2006: 25.59
2007: 26.61
2008: 28.06
2009: 28.62
2010: 28.77
2011 through 2/20: 28.90