It is worth considering. Cars should not be the only answer to transportation as they are so often viewed in this country. Cars are really bad ways to get around cities and as things to design cities around.

 

That must be nice.

A guy at work retired to Maine, somewhere on the coast. I haven't heard from him in a decade.

 

Around town I run the gauge down to no bars on our '06(12.2 to 12.5 gal. to fill up). On one of our long drives we did put 13.5 gal. in it so I know I was running on fumes, not sure I was going to make it to the next town so I was not going over 45 mph and coasting as much as possible. Out west we go on drives where there is 100 or more miles between towns and sometimes I get a little nervous if I'm going to make it to the next gas station(that's why I carry 3/4 gal. of gas in my saddle bag on my bike).

On one trip we would not have made it to the next gas station but we stopped at a National park in Utah and they gave me 1 gal to make it to the next town(21 miles). They told me all n/p have gas for their vehicles and tourist that are very low on gas(that's good to know).

Rod

 

Yep it is always worth considering. Just not always feasible for everyone.

I have limited my driving to very very little. Sometimes a tank of gas in the Tacoma lasts us a month and a half or more now. But that is not feasible for everyone either. I certainly do not miss having to commute in the city, or even living closer to it actually But I am not really big on the city life either so that works for me. Everyone has a different situation though I know and some just have to drive a car for various reasons.

I will say the city I moved from had very good support for bicycles (Minneapolis) and a lot of my coworkers used to bike when we all worked downtown. Even in the winter, but that takes dedication there! Spikes on the tires to deal with ice on the trails and on streets, negative temps, etc. But a lot of people that lived downtown did it which was cool. I did not live downtown as I did not work downtown when we moved up there so it did not work for me. If we had lived closer to that job I would have been all about it though. I think in mpls, if you live within 5 miles of work downtown it is actually faster to bike anyways. Maybe even from a tad further out depending on direction.

 

I never drive to empty tank but I always calculate average fuel consumption when filling up.
On street driving it has been from 33mpg on gasoline to 13mpg with supercharger and E85.