Today is the one month aniversary of driving my Chevy Volt home. In that month I have bought ..... ZERO .... 0 ...... 0.0000000 gallons of gas.
Feel free to read my other diary about why and how I got this amazing new car and join me below the squiggle for more thoughts on a gas free month.
The reality of a gasoline-free life (for me) was something I percieved when I bought the car but one month later it's still amazing to me to think about.
Here's the simple fact:
I haven't bought gasoline in a month.
To further that - I have used 2.1 gallons of gasoline in that month (the Volt tells you to the dirty details). I have driven 600 miles. Of the 2.1 gallons, nearly 1 gallon was used driving home from the dealer because the car was not charged when I bought it.
The other gas was used on 2 occasions when I made (obviously) infrequent long trips.
The bottom line is that really I used 1.1 gallons of gas in a month and to me that's a BFD.
To the naysaysers - YES - I used electricty - I burned some fossil. To that I say - a) I'm looking at solar on the roof - hopefully really soon! and b) Humans need electricity and it's not going away - but - we're working on ways to get it better and ...... at current ..... no war has been fought over coal.
So - short diary this time.
My life changed when I got this car - in my commute world I dropped off the oil grid. I am a smaller contributor to foreign wars (I originally was going to put 'I am not a contributer' but I know I still am in other ways) and if 10% of America could take this route it would be glorious. the higher the number gets the better. I'm also much less of a contributor to climate change (again - I am not so delerious to think I'm not a prt of that at all)
I know the Volt isn't cheap and most can't even get it but the more notice it (or any EV) gets the more the price might come down and the needle is pushed so I will keep talking about it.
Oh - yeah - and it's nice that my old $200 a month gas habit now pays most of my car payment ..... food for thought.