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Summer of Love Index

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Number of days on the road so far: 14

Mileage on the 2006 Honda Odyssey at the
beginning of the trip: 48,139

Mileage on the minivan at the end of the day, June 2nd: 50,738

Total miles driven during Summer of Love: 2,599

The average number of miles driven per day: 185.64

Fewest miles driven in one day: 0

Approximte CO2 footprint for driving portions
of the trip, thus far: 963 lbs

Cost of fuel for the trip thus far: $481.13

Cost to offset the carbon emissions of the driving
portions of the trip, thus far: $2.41

Cost for fuel per mile driven: $0.1851

Number of hotels stayed in: 6

Total number of photographs taken during the trip so far: 944

Average number of photographs taken per day so far: 67.43

Fewest number of pictures taken in a day thus far: 8

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  1. I wanted to keep this post clean, as an homage to a certain publication. But, it’s pretty amazing to me that the carbon offsets for this trip thus far will cost $2.41. I’m planning on buying offsets for the whole Summer of Love shortly. But, let’s look at that.

    $2.41 versus the $481.13 for fuel. 0.5% of the cost of the fuel.

    Jamie

    2 Jun 08 at 10:48 pm

  2. I’m amazed by the carbon offset price as well. So when burning $4 per gallon gas, you could spend ~2 cents and this would nullify all the carbon damage? I’m missing something, it can’t be this cheap. State and Fed gas taxes are each 20 cents per gallon. For 2 extra cents, we could all drive cadillacs and not feel guilty anymore?

    Ben

    2 Jun 08 at 11:42 pm

  3. I totally agree Ben. This is an example of why I think offsets are total voodoo. If it is that cheap, let’s just get them and be done.

    Jamie

    3 Jun 08 at 8:02 am

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