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Old 02-08-08, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by acorn54
i drive my car to work four to five days a week, about two miles to work. it only costs two thou sand dollars a year at the most for all expenses for my car. actually i was pretty disappointed to see how much i would save if i just used a bike. with no car i would blow six hundred a year on taxi fare to work when the weather is not suitable to ride a bike. that leaves me with a savings of only fourteen hundred dollars a year.
i can see why people are not given an incentive to give up using cars.
Isn't there a bus for those bad weather days? Or a rain cape?
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