Percentage of your monthly income spent on fuel

[Origin Unknown]

This should be interesting given the typical memberbase of the site.

15%

[D1ngd0ng]

How does one account for a fuel card?

[_rubinho_]

0%; I don't own a car at the moment!

[StottyZr]

25% of my take home.

[sleep envy]

0.6% of nett

[trickywoo]

7% of take home.

[Frances The Mute]

This is depressing.

I'm currently at 30.3% of take home. That's my daily driver commute as I don't have time to drive for fun, these days...

[Gad-Westy]

Around 5% right now but mileage fairly low for the time being.

[The1Driver]

I too would say around 5%. I dont drive as often these days. Weekend driver only.

[slipstream 1985]

7-15% depending on the season 7%in winter 15%in summer

[anonymous-user]

I was spending about 40% of my take hown after my employer fooked me over! Ive just been made redundant so at least im not spending so much now

[DaveH23]

7.8% of take home pay.

I use a fuel calc app on my iphone and using my average monthly spend from that.

[Composite Guru]

As a family we probably use £100 a month.

I sold my fun car and now use the train for work and we have an economy car for everyday use.

[Hub]

About 6% of take home pay. But then I am a tight git driving an economical diesel when I don't really need to at the moment!

[StottyZr]

doogz said:

StottyZr said:

25% of my take home.

You bought your diesel to get uber-MPG and still spend 25% of your salary on fuel?!

Do you work on the moon?!

Exactly the reason why I didn't buy something like an S3. The figure would have been 50%

[angusc43]

D1ngd0ng said:

How does one account for a fuel card?

Are you not taxed on it as a benefit in kind? If so it's the cost of the tax.

For me my fuel works out somewhere around 1.5% of takehome. I may have a 5.0 V8 but commute by bike/tube/train/plane. The car is for fun at weekends and for family holidays.

There are some quite astonishing figures here. I can see the attraction of diesels now. I had no idea people had to spend such a vast proportion of take home pay on fuel.

Edited by angusc43 on Tuesday 15th November 13:11

[tangerine_sedge]

Hub said:

About 6% of take home pay. But then I am a tight git driving an economical diesel when I don't really need to at the moment!

About 6% too, but I have a Hethel made lightweight for the daily commute and a Czech made FWD loony estate for the family stuff.

[kambites]

I'm not sure why it matters that it's "monthly" income.

Something like 2% of net of my income on my car. About 3% of our income on our cars.

Edited by kambites on Tuesday 15th November 13:16

[Marf]

9.7% of net or 7% of gross - doing roughly 600 miles a month at 25mpg.

[EDLT]

This was mentioned on the Daily Politics today, many normal people are paying 10% of their income on fuel.

The Depart of Energy and Climate Change says:
"A household is said to be in fuel poverty if it needs to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel to maintain a satisfactory heating regime (usually 21 degrees for the main living area, and 18 degrees for other occupied rooms)."

So if you need a car for work, and the car costs 10% of your income to fuel does that mean you are a fuel pov?