Mileage is better on the petrol than on the gas, but the gas is significantly cheaper. On long trips, for every 100 miles (160km) I do 20 miles on petrol and 80 miles on gas. So only a quarter of the distance is actually on petrol, the rest is on gas that costs $0.50 a litre.
My car being older however, doesn't get as good a mileage as modern cars. 8.5km per litre of petrol, 7km per litre of gas. In a modern car that gets around 10km per litre (some do much better) you're looking at about $77 in petrol costs. So you can add the $20 for food and drink and say it's a hundred dollar trip.
But if we're going to be that realistic, then the plane trip is likely to end up costing much more than my examples.
Have looked at buses and trains. Buses aren't bad, trains you have to go to Sydney first (from memory). But I know I looked at buses at one point and it was over $100! Mind you, I also found that most of the bus companies had pages that were hopeless at giving you the basic details needed, so I didn't look too hard.
Trains and buses usually work out to be the most environmentally friendly options, though.
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Date: 2007-02-05 11:03 am (UTC)Mileage is better on the petrol than on the gas, but the gas is significantly cheaper. On long trips, for every 100 miles (160km) I do 20 miles on petrol and 80 miles on gas. So only a quarter of the distance is actually on petrol, the rest is on gas that costs $0.50 a litre.
My car being older however, doesn't get as good a mileage as modern cars. 8.5km per litre of petrol, 7km per litre of gas. In a modern car that gets around 10km per litre (some do much better) you're looking at about $77 in petrol costs. So you can add the $20 for food and drink and say it's a hundred dollar trip.
But if we're going to be that realistic, then the plane trip is likely to end up costing much more than my examples.
Have looked at buses and trains. Buses aren't bad, trains you have to go to Sydney first (from memory). But I know I looked at buses at one point and it was over $100! Mind you, I also found that most of the bus companies had pages that were hopeless at giving you the basic details needed, so I didn't look too hard.
Trains and buses usually work out to be the most environmentally friendly options, though.