Help in budgeting gas for mini 18 days in Ireland

Try using Michelin's route planner. If you click on options, it will give you an estimated cost for fuel.

https://www.viamichelin.com/

While gas is expensive, roughly $5.50 USD per gallon, the mini gets good gas mileage and you could easily drink pints in a day that total more than your daily cost. Relax, part of a trip is spending a bit too much on the necessities , but all worth the cost. If you are concerned, maybe $175 to $225, hope that is not a deal breaker.

1.40€ per litre x 3.78 x 1.17= $6.19 per U.S. Gallon.

At 50 mpg, you should be spending approximately $160 on gasoline.
We just returned from Ireland and just drove from Dublin to Waterville on the Ring of Kerry. When you get off the beaten path, driving in Ireland is extremely demanding. Back roads are only 1 1/2 lanes wide, hilly, curvy and not at all well paved. And bushes are on both sides of the roads where we traveled.
Your planned itinerary is pretty aggressive. We only found pubs in Dublin as satellite television in homes have changed the way of life in Ireland.

Cars are a liability in urban centers. Free parking is not a right in major European (or North American) cities. And parking fee scoflaws risk fines.

At 50 mpg

Wow

Is everywhere one goes in Ireland downhill?

Thanks all!

Hopefully you won't be getting a Mini Cooper because you certainly won't see 50mpg in that!

Even in a normal mini you'll be spending a lot more than the proposed $160 if you're going to be driving 1270 miles.

I own a mini and driving slowly around town I get about 28. A little more on the freeway.

European rental cars have smaller engines with less horsepower than U.S. cars and get better fuel mileage.
We had a Renault SUV in Ireland with a turbodiesel, and it got over 50 mpg.
I was watching U.S. fuel prices raise recently to the highest.prices in 3 years--$2.60 locally. Then I thought about what Europeans are paying, and we have nothing to complain about. And why am I even thinking about fuel since I have a 2018 Camry Hybrid getting 52 mpg in town and 47.8 mpg on long distance driving.

Budgeting for travel. My understanding of budgeting is to get an idea of anticipated expenses and compare those to available resources, ie, can I afford this or do I need to make some changes? I’m always a bit mystified when I see a trip already booked (and I assume that is the case here), planned, and now we are budgeting for something that is essential (petrol) and for which there are no substitutes (unless you decide to forego a car and use public transportation). It’s not like food where you can choose to shop in a grocery or dine at fine restaurants and still have the “fuel” your body needs. To the OP, what would you do if the answers you get show that the cost of fuel is more than you anticipated? Cancel, modify your trip? Get another car? Take the bus? I use budgeting when I’m in the planning stages of a trip and try to include all estimated costs and see where I can trim, add, shift things around. If the numbers don’t add up then I look at the trip in it’s entirety and decide if this is a go/no go/ needs to be modified.

are you getting a petrol engine or diesel. Diesel is more expensive per litre but gets significantly better mileage.

The colours of the pipes and pumps are revered according to my brother visiting from over the pond, so be very careful to refill with the correct pump.

Blimey! A proper Irishman could drink up the difference between 28 and 50 mpg in a good night!

The colours of the pipes and pumps are revered

Did not realize the British got so emotional over a fuel dispensing device

PS- Nigel: I wonder did the guy buying the old bus get nuked by the webmaster or just deleted his post because he did not like the answers

Every time we take a petrol or diesel handle from the we say a little prayer 'God, is that really the price? It was 10 p per litre cheaper last time!'