Originally Posted by
GeraldF
I think you need to redo your math. At $3.75/gallon, and assuming your averaged 28 mpg, gas ALONE costs over $0.13/mile. Also, in suburban or rural areas where transporting long distances is necessary, bicycling for transportation doesn't make much sense. However, in URBAN areas, where most of one's destinations are within a few miles, and where car parking often costs quite a bit, biking is much, much cheaper than driving. Biking in cities is also much faster than driving.
These lowball estimates almost always use dubious math and very optimistic estimates of various costs. There could be many other inaccuracies, but mrodgers doesn't give us the data. Of course, mrodgers drives twice as much as the average American, so his per mile fixed costs will be lower as a result.
The
average cost of a small car is somewhere around 60 cents a mile, according to AAA and the IRS.