Cost of petrol for a round trip of 55 miles

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paulB - 23 Apr 2006 10:36 GMT

Someone has offered to deliver some goods for me and wants me to name a
price for delivery - a round trip of 55 miles in total - how much would
this cost in petrol? Don't know size of car, but image it must be
large. Can someone give me an idea

Thanks

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Alan - 23 Apr 2006 11:14 GMT

>Someone has offered to deliver some goods for me and wants me to name a
>price for delivery

Shouldn't this be the other way around - the person delivering names the
price.

>- a round trip of 55 miles in total - how much would
>this cost in petrol? Don't know size of car, but image it must be
>large. Can someone give me an idea

Rough guide for the UK

Say, 30 miles per UK gallon so approximately 2 gallons petrol
consumption.

2 gallons (UK) = 9 litres and petrol is very close to £1 (1 GBP) per
litre.

If it's a large car and the journey involves mainly start/stop town
driving then the 30 miles per gallon may be very optimistic i.e. it may
be closer to 20 miles per gallon..

So the rough guide may be between £8 (8 GBP) and £12 (12 GBP) for the
petrol alone.

Depending on the roads and the time of day the journey time would be
around 1 to 2 hours.

12 GBP = $21 US

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DervMan - 23 Apr 2006 11:47 GMT

> Someone has offered to deliver some goods for me and wants me to name a
> price for delivery - a round trip of 55 miles in total - how much would
> this cost in petrol? Don't know size of car, but image it must be
> large. Can someone give me an idea

You could get all scientific about it, or you could simply apply some
official mileage rates from company to company. Or on time.

Mine by way of an example pay me just 28p per mile. Some pay 40p per mile.

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