Originally Posted by acorn54
well
i work about 3 miles from my house and only use my car for t he travel to work and back and i only put about $20 (10 gallons) of gas in my car. if my car gets 20mpg and i drive only 180 m iles a month you can see why i only use $240 year in gas. yes my insurance is 600 year since i dont have collision and my car is a 1988 cutlass cierra. so that is $840/yr. my maintenance and repair and inspection costs were $600 for the past year so that's a total of $1440 in cost for my car. a bus every day 7 days a week costs me $1500 for the year if i used it to get to work and to do errands.
acorn
You live
three miles from work and you drive??? Sorry... but lame! I ride my bike 12 miles each way every day that I can. Why start up that gas burner and spew pollution into the air every day when you could hop on your bike and be at work in minutes?