Originally Posted by dcrowell

I rented the car for three days at a total cost of about $160 including all insurance. I paid about $45 in gasoline. So, let's call it $200 total.

I'll need to do this maybe twice a year, but sometimes it could be more than three days. Let's be generous and say $700 per year. That's still a bargain and equivalent to two months car-payment on my truck that I sold in November.