What if there was no blog? Easing back to the blog.

If there was no blog, there would be four individuals driving to and from work each day, radio blaring, nose being picked, random trips along the way, etc.  You know, it's the American dream and all of that.

So let's take a second to examine what happens in that case.  Drivers, start your gas guzzlers.

Driver #1:  Let's call her Betsy.  2.4 miles one way to work.  Doesn't sound like much, right?  Summers off, even.  Well folks, that trip alone is an astounding 864 miles and at least 30 gallons of gas per year.  ...and yes, summers off.  Yikes!

Driver #2: "Dale".  20.1 miles one way.  9,250 miles per year!  At an estimated 20 mpg, that's about 460 gallons of poison.

Driver #3: "Lohn".  16.5 miles one way.  7,600 miles.  His ride is probably at 32 mpg, call it 240 gallons of Sunoco Racing Fuel per year.

Driver #4: That's me.  Joe.  18.8 miles one way.  I made this journey alone for probably the last 22 years.  8,300 miles/year.  In my luxury econo-box at 36 mpg, that is 230 gallons of evil.

All together, something like 960 gallons of fuel (roughly $3,400 worth).  More than 26,000 miles!  It is also about 870 hours behind the wheel.  Thirty six days on the road.

FOUR people just going to work.

So stay tuned.  We've used about 20 different recipes to get us to task since the beginning of 2012 .  Often two, sometimes three cars deployed.

• Did we ever need four cars?
• When is it possible to get there in one car?
• How much did we save?
• Can you save enough fuel to eat for free?

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