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Save/ShareA new Web site lets you calculate your gas costs for any trip: Moblu.
Enter your departure and arrival cities—plus the year, make and model of your car—and Moblu will provide your estimated fuel costs and climate impact along with printable Google Maps directions.
For example, on a trip between Dallas and Denver, Moblu predicts that you'll cover 879 miles. Assuming you're in a 2007 Ford Escape 2WD, you'll burn through 31 gallons of fuel at an average cost of $57 total. Your climate impact will be to produce 618 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2). That amount of C02 would take 16 tree seedlings grown for 10 years to absorb from the atmosphere, according to the site.
You don't have to sign up for anything to take it for a test spin. Moblu can also be used to track the fuel economy of your car, but you need to sign up with the service : as well as join Twitter* to take advantage of that feature, notes The New York Times' blog Wheels.)
*Blog post clarified after publication, due to comment posted below.
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Sean,
Thanks for highlighting our Moblu Road Trip tool (http://www.moblu.ca/trips).
I just wanted to clarify one aspect of your article. Users can sign-up to track their mileage at Moblu without signing up for Twitter. Users can record fill-ups on the web or use a smartphone to enter the fill-up on our mobile site (http://m.moblu.ca).
Thanks again.
Mike Scott
Founder, Moblu
Posted By Mike Scott on June 12, 2009, 7:22 PM
Thanks for the catch. I regret the error.
Posted By Sean on June 15, 2009, 10:21 AM
your figures cannot be correct. 31 gallons at $3.75 per gallon is $116, twice as much as you figured. if you can find gas at$1.80 let me know
Posted By r sher on June 9, 2011, 1:48 PM
I tried Moblu, simple, fast, easy, but will only give you distance in kilometers and CO2 produced when you input a car's make and model (Honda Accord 2005). Too bad it is not complete and has detailed information on most popular cars.
Its cost calculation for the average car is wrong, as it is based on $0.40/gal.
I like the Metric/English conversion, as I prefer metric.
Posted By Gabriel on June 9, 2011, 2:04 PM