Originally Posted by
ScottCommutes
If you own a car, its hard to convince me that you save any money at all by getting into all the bicycling expenses on top of your (reduced) car expenses. Kind of like spending $60 to save money at BJ's or Costco. Also, going car free isn't realistic for a lot of people because cars do lots of things that cars can't, and they do it pretty efficiently.
The real savings I see is replacing a family's second car with a bike or bikes. You get so many diminishing returns on the second car when you have the first.
But you would agree that you'd save fuel costs, right? And each mile you don't take is a portion of your next oil change bill. It also defers your next tire purchase, right?
I think it's fair to say that it depends on the situation.