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On the way to work today, I hit 80,000 miles on my 2004 Prius!<\/p>\n
I snapped a couple pics<\/a> as it changed over.<\/p>\n A little math…<\/p>\n 80,000 miles at an average of, let’s say 46 MPG (it tends to be around that), that works out to about 1,739 gallons of gas. Damn, that’s a lot of gas! Not sure what the average price of gas has been over the past few years, let’s say $2, that works out to about $3,478 in gas.<\/p>\n If I’d had a lower MPG car, let’s say 25 MPG, the gas would have been $6,400.<\/p>\n So the Prius’ higher MPG has been a savings of $2,922 so far. I’ve had the car for 5 years, so that’s 16,000 miles a year, or 43.84 miles per day. I’ve already paid it off, so here’s hoping I can get another 5 years out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the way to work today, I hit 80,000 miles on my 2004 Prius! I snapped a couple pics as it changed over. A little math… 80,000 miles at an average of, let’s say 46 MPG (it tends to be around that), that works out to about 1,739 gallons of gas. Damn, that’s a lot … Continue reading 80,000 miles!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,153],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-driving","tag-prius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPlus the emissions are lower on the Prius, so there’s that, too.<\/p>\n
\nWhich about matches my daily commute, so no surprise there.<\/p>\n