Originally Posted by
sbslider
To me, it is interesting how the quantity of dumb comments has decreased in the past few years. Not sure if it is related to the price of fuel increase, or people are just used to me being a dumb bike commuter.
I will say that doing this for 25 years has saved a TON of $$, about 50,000 miles worth of driving. I estimated my cost of biking at around $5000 for 25 years, as I am a one bike at a time kind of person. I figure I have been about break even in what I would have spent on gas in those 25 years, but have saved on cars, maintenance and extra trips I would have done if I had driven. Other than gas, I wonder how much I saved riding 2,000 miles a year for 25 years?
I've noticed the same thing after almost three years at this job. My theory is they've just gotten used to it, at work anyway. But by coincidence I got a dumb comment this morning when I stopped at a convenience store on the way in, the first in recent memory.
That many miles I'd think you've done better than break even on gas. For total cost of driving the IRS thinks it's 56.5 cents per mile this year, up from about 35 cents a decade ago, 31.5 in 1997. I don't know earlier than that, so guessing 35 cents as the average (close enough for government work
) you've saved over $17,500, which puts you up over $12,000! You're doing pretty well I'd say.
ps, if you include saving from the extra trips you might have taken, were you driving instead, it would be way more. Probably more than double that, given the number of miles people drive around locally in general.