GAS USAGE CALCULATOR This tool provides our visitors with an easy way to estimate their gas expenses for the next year. While designing this tool we have integrated the best available sources of current information on most of the existing vehicles and current gas prices. This is by far the best estimator of gas spending one can find online. Our sponsors have made it possible to organize and release this tool to be used by general public FREE of charge. Try it now and find out how much you will spend on gas this year.

Why we created the Gas Usage Calculator

As one gets asked: “How much do you think you will spend on gas this year?” – the answer, in many cases, comes in a form of a question spoken with a doubtful intonation: “A thousand?” Another type of the answer for this question may come with a smirk and will sound something like: “A lot!” We do expect to spend some money on gas each year. This is the price we pay for the convenience of owning an automobile. But do we really want to know how much it is that we are going to spend?

Although some of us keep track of their gas expenses, a lot of people have not obtained a habit of putting together receipts from their transactions and calculating totals at the end of a month or year. Many people will only look at the numbers that roll up on the pump display and sigh once in a while in a quiet agreement that the prices are much higher than they used to be. Knowing how much it costs one to drive his or her vehicle is very important. Gas expense is one of the biggest parts of our budgeting after housing, food and utilities. With the current gas prices it can no longer be ignored. This month-after-month changing number can be the reason one experiences shortage in his or her regular budget.

This tool will awaken the awareness for current gas prices and their impact on family financial planning. It shall bring to the attention of gas consumers the need to find ways of consuming less gasoline if not for the sake of preserving natural resources and the air, then at least for the sake of protecting their pockets of becoming empty.

What's behind the Gas Usage Calculator?

This tool is based on technical data for most of the existing vehicles recently produced in the USA and abroad. Combined with the results of statistical analysis of ongoing surveys for the general use of privately owned transportation, the gas usage unit per given model has been brought to its solid theoretical value. Which is used to estimate the amount of gas a certain vehicle will require for given mileage. This tool uses current average prices that are updated each 6 hours from the website of The US Department of Energy. Which makes it the most up to date resource for such information online.