How much gas do skiers use?

IheartJump

According to this article american gas consumption / person is way out of control. I'm personally pushing about 600 gallons myself and this is before i bought a boat (so mostly car gas, but i expect it to skyrocket now). where do you fall?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/us-gas-consumption_n_4454472.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

IheartJump

500-700

didn't mean to add the blank option

oldjeep

Just for my truck alone it is well over 1000 gallons a year, probably closer to 1300. If you add on the other 3 cars in the household the boat and snowmobiles then we are likely close to 2000.

Chef23

I have to admit I have no idea.

Wish

<300 gallons / person

I try to consume as much boat and car gas as possible with the hopes of leaving the biggest frign carbon footprint in order to advance global warming. I like to ski when it's warm out.....

As absurd as my comment is, so to is a far left leaning source. It would have been an interesting poll without the heavy leaning political slant left or right. Good luck with the thread.'

PS I picked the "blank" option but was registered as 300-500

thager

No idea.

IheartJump

500-700

sorry for the left leaning source... one of my buddies emailed it to me for a laugh saying our last houseboat trip bill was 400 gallons over three days.

A_B

I would never put that anywhere in writing. My wife thinks a tank of gas lasts a long time.

JohnN

>700 gallons a year

You had to make us think about it, didn't you? 30000+ miles/year at maybe an average of 20mpg (between the Volvo, F350 and Beetle), plus gas for 100 hours on the boat, plus a handful of tanks in the Chevy, probably between 1500 and 2000. Of course that supports the 4 of us, and includes a fair amount of carpooling. The sheer amount of seat time boggles the mind...

PBD

Gas guzzling horror show?

Give me a fricken break.

Figures don't lie but lairs figure.

MattP

<300 gallons / person

1gal/set. 150 sets this season=150 gal. Used.

Waternut

>700 gallons a year

300-400 gallons a year it's pretty mild if you ask me. I used over 1000 gallons in my truck. I figure about 120 gallons skiing the course and then another 420 gallons in my own boat. Granted the 420 in my boat wasn't all used by me. Last year I spent $4700 on gas according to my credit card and that doesn't count time skiing on a slalom course.

None of that includes a work trip to Japan and Israel or any other form of public transportation...not sure how much fuel my butt burns on those things.

crashman

As if burning gas is a bad thing. Show me a V8 truck pulling a V8 boat and I will show you a happy man. My horror show happens this time of year when I'm burning wood instead of gas.

The_MS

A bunch

E_T

@BMG73 i am right there with you

ForrestGump

>700 gallons a year

I just looked on my truck, which is one year old, and I've used 1470 gallons.

6balls

>700 gallons a year

Let's just say my water based fuel burn pales vs. my total. With two auto's and the number of miles we put on per year, factoring in fuel mileage we are at a good 2000 gallons. I also put about 150 hours on the combo of two boats and if I'm burning 6 an hour which I think is conservative that's another 900. I also dump 15-20 gallons/hour thru the airplane I'm lucky to fly for 50 hours/yr for another 1000 gallons. Let's call it 4000.

MISkier

>700 gallons a year

I use more than 700 gallons during just the ski season (mid-April to late October) alone. That is across two trucks and the boat. Boat hours are about 50 per year. At about 4.5 gallons per hour, that is 225 gallons right there. That does not count gas used in the boats of my ski partners during the season or the boat at our club's weekly ski league.

My gas usage in the truck is high. I drive 100 miles one-way to ski at least twice a week during June - Sept.

MrJones

>700 gallons a year

Truck alone is prob 1100-1200. Add boat and lawn mower (lotsa grass) and I am burning 1500 or so.

Bulldog

500-700

My favorite saying is "someone is having a real problem today" the fact you have a boat or access to one to burn gas in is a beautiful thing! Things like cancer or a child or spouse dying is a real problem - not burning too much gas is a NOT A REAL problem.

Bruce_Butterfield

>700 gallons a year

About 800 gal for the boat, plus around 2500 gal for 3 vehicles at ~60k miles/yr total.

Total gas/diesel bill was about $12k for the year.

RichardDoane

>700 gallons a year

worth every penny

Horton

>700 gallons a year

My fuel bill so far so far for the year is about $4,500. That is truck and boat gas. Next year will be more as I will have my own boat and not doing any "trade" for rides.

GOODESkier

>700 gallons a year

I say "Burn it while it's cheap!"

Between my 500+ a year in the boat, family runs 4 snowmobiles (1 turbo that likes it's gas) plus a not so economical Tundra to get me to the snow. Adding snow skiing to the mix this year, so MORE GAS to go to the mountain! Guessing way over 1500 gallons, but who's counting????

My balance is paddle boarding....... yeah that is what I call balance!

BRY

>700 gallons a year

With my Jetta TDI I get 36MPG real average (44 or so @ ~70 on long highway trips), wife's turbo 4cylinder get's 27 real average (surprisingly good) and 7.3L F350 diesel about 16 but don't drive it much anymore. We don't rack up crazy miles so for regular transportation we don't use that much.
Then there's the boat. Now its on a lift in the back yard and its always summer in FL we use it a lot more. Rough calculations seem to show it takes us from quite a bit under 700 to quite a bit over 700. But not going to figure it out, don't want to know. Just keep pouring the liquid gold into it and taking another set. If fuel got crazy expensive think it would get the gas, we have bikes and FL is really flat.

thor_64

I had a running joke w/ co-worker I had a couple years back........there was a small middle eastern country that depended on my skiing & camping every weekend to support their family and it was my duty to keep their lifestyle at the level they had become accustom to!

SkiJay

>700 gallons a year

For about a year, my lame attempt to balance my carbon footprint from water skiing, racing cars, and joy riding around in our supercharged Viper was to drive a SmartCar as my daily driver. It made about as much sense as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

BlueSki

I did not buy my truck (or my boat) to save on gas. To respond to the author of the article, not the original post, we, the U.S., have a huge tracts of land and consequently a much lower population density than our BMW-exporting friends. Our transportation infrastructure is built on the highway system so we own more cars per capita... of course we burn more gas. I often forget, however, that the European rail system runs on unicorns and kittens barfing rainbows.

XR6Hurricane

I'm way under the lowest option in the poll. 125-200 gallons in the boat depending on the year, and that includes a lot of joy riding too. About 700 in the truck and 50-75 in the bike.

DefectiveDave

300-500

I'm an underachiever. I didn't have a boat for most of this year, I live 8 minutes from work, and my wife works at the same location so we carpool. Combined we used about 300 gallons this year in vehicles and the boat. Living close to work really keeps the miles down considering it's where we go 70-80% of the time we go anywhere.

Next year I plan to fix that though and burn lots of gas on the lake. :-D

chris_logan

>700 gallons a year

I track my fuel consumption and purchased over 1,500 gallons over the past 12 months - and that was just in my car. I don't track fuel consumption in my truck (too depressing) and haven't brought myself to admit the amount of boat gas I buy.