I'm being a taxi service for one of my friends for the next 4 days

[William93]

Hi, my friend has asked me to take him to work tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday & Monday which I have kindly agreed to do so. He said he would give me £10 for it after upping it from £7. I've tried working out if he is ripping me off with regards to fuel but I am so bad at Maths and would like someone else to help me from the following information below.

When I bought the car, the eBay description said it does 42MPG.

Fuel here is 116.9p for unleaded petrol.

His place of work is 15 miles away. This means 30 miles each day for me. I will not be picking him up, only taking him there.

Can someone help? Thanks

[Catzsy]

That doesn't sound enough to me. What's the mpg on your car?

[William93]

That doesn't sound enough to me. What's the mpg on your car?

The eBay description where I got the car from said 42.

[Swearwolf]

off topic, but jesus lol 116.9 for petrol? its 109.9 here

[Catzsy]

Well thats 30 miles there and back so I would say it would only just cover it.

[Jordy]

I would assume you are being ripped off enormously, a taxi charges about £10 for 4 miles just to put things into perspective.

42MPG is only what you'll achieve when driving at about 50MPH consistently for a length of time, the rest of the time it'll be much lower than that. Not sure how I'd do the maths though seeing as you buy petrol in litres and MPG uses gallons. Bare in mind it's going to take you a lot of time too. I'd say £25 minimum, but personally I think that's worth about £50 even at mates rates.

[GoldenMerc]

I normally totally rip everyone off whos paying to get somewere because i hate it when things like this happen i charge like £14-15 from kenilworth to lem and thats like 7 miles max aha

[Alexx..]

£10 for each day or for all 4 days?

[GoldenMerc]

You also haven't realised your most likely driving him there and back for about 20p, Plus wear and tear of your car. So your making a loss

[AgnesIO]

do you mean per day or in total?