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Wed, 02 Jan 2008
Miles
Some participants on a local bikey mailing list have been reporting their annual miles ridden as tallied by their cyclometers. In a new(?) twist this year, one of them calculated the amount of gasoline that those miles would have consumed if travelled by automobile.
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I don't have a cyclometer installed so I will have to guesstimate. My commute is 80 miles a week. Social, recreational and errands account for at least another 20 miles a week on average. (A lot more during the summer, but a lot less during the winter.) My average is probably more than 100 miles a week, but it is is probably somewhere around there and one hundred is such a nice even figure I think I'll stick with it.
So - 5200 miles a year on the bicycle - the equivalent of a round trip to Ketchikan, Alaska. At 25 MPG, that works out to a savings of 208 gallons. Not spewing all that pollution into the air is a good enough reason to ride, but there are of course more immediately selfish benefits as well such as the ~$645 those gallons would have cost at $3.10 per. (I am not perfect of course. I did put about 3k on my motorcycle ~45 MPG).