High On MY Hybrid

I want to give you an update on my Honda Civic Hybrid’s performance. I purchased the car on Wednesday May 19th and Jim Coleman Honda was nice enough to give me a full tank of gas. First tank of gas free! SCHWEET! I’m sure some smart ass-hat will tell me that the cost of that tank was worked into the price of the car and hidden, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, whatever. I have now gone through three full tanks of gas and I started my fourth tank last night. So far I have gotten 540 miles per 12 gallon tank of gas and that equals – this is easy math and I like easy math – 45 miles to the gallon. With gas prices what they are that’s nothing to sneeze at and fortunately gas prices in our neighborhood have come down a few cents this week and are back under $2.00. I paid a buck ninety-eight and nine tenths a gallon last night for a total of – more easy math – $24.00. During the work week I drive a crazy eighty-eight miles a day. Five days at eighty-eight miles equals 440 miles. That gives me another hundred miles on one tank. Bottom line is that I fill up my tank once a week. With the Saturn I was filling up every four days. Of course I didn’t have a car payment with the Saturn, but the hybrid is a better vehicle all around. I am high on my hybrid.