{"id":201,"date":"2007-10-28T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2007-10-28T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T14:57:03","slug":"tracking-my-petrol-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Tracking my petrol usage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I filled my car with petrol today. <\/p>\n

Not normally something I’d blog about, but I wanted to write a quick post about mymilemarker.com<\/a> because I don’t see many people using it. <\/p>\n

The idea is fairly simple – a web app that you use to record when you fill your car with petrol, that can then work out useful figures like your average mileage and car’s fuel efficiency. <\/p>\n

I came across it because you can update your record from twitter<\/a>, and any excuse to find another way to use twitter is always good. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s fairly American-ized, so I have to remember to read “miles” everywhere it says “kilometers”. But I quite like it. It’s interesting to see that I do about 9 miles per litre on average, and that if I carry on like I have been in the last few months, I will spend about \u00a3390 a year on petrol. <\/p>\n

Once they get more users and a bigger store of previous updates behind them, I can see this being a useful information resource. They record the make and model of your car with your updates, so imagine people looking to buy a car being able to see actual real-life fuel efficiency figures for the models of car they are interested in? <\/p>\n

I don’t know how far they are from having a database big enough to be able to produce figures with a reasonable degree of statistical reliability, but it’ll be interesting when they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I filled my car with petrol today. Not normally something I’d blog about, but I wanted to write a quick post about mymilemarker.com because I don’t see many people using it. The idea is fairly simple – a web app that you use to record when you fill your car with petrol, that can then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}