{"id":11346,"date":"2015-07-11T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2015-07-11T01:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T01:38:21","slug":"driving-gas-consumption-and-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/driving-gas-consumption-and-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving:  Gas consumption and cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explores a common topic among families.<\/h1>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been driving the kids to their activities and my wife to and from work.  While there&#8217;s rarely been a dull moment, I&#8217;ve arrived at the topic of fuel consumption and cost.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical week, one or both my kids have activities most days.  We live in a small town; the drive is never far.  Between work and activities, I&#8217;d say the van covers 100km a week.  We only have one car.<\/p>\n<p>Our van, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuelly.com\/car\/chevrolet\/uplander\">fuelly.com,<\/a> uses 14.2L\/100km.  So, we use about 14.2L per week. With gasoline about $1.20\/L, the fuel cost should be around 14.2*$1.20=$17.04 per week.  Just for round figures, that leads to a monthly expenditure of about $70 &#8211; yearly, $890.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking more about fuel economy and driving:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explores a common topic among families. Lately, I&#8217;ve been driving the kids to their activities and my wife to and from work. While there&#8217;s rarely been a dull moment, I&#8217;ve arrived at the topic of fuel consumption and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/driving-gas-consumption-and-cost\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving:  Gas consumption and cost<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,384,434,181],"tags":[923,924],"class_list":["post-11346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-home-economics","category-lifestyle","tag-fuel-economy","tag-fuel-expenditure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11357,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}