Originally Posted by Rev.Chuck
The stuff is pretty interesting but sometimes they pushed the stats to make them look better/worse when a more honest answer would have been just as bad and more believable. Like the twenty percent of income to own and operate the family cars. I checked and our worse year ever, buying a new car, blown turbo and headgasket in the van, all service, insurance, tax and fuel cost(40 miles a day) was just under 13% and usually it is about 4% and we don't even have a great income
it says "transportation costs," which could refer to other things than car expenses, such as flying, or taking a bus or train, or even buying a bicycle. i think that stat is just there to say "look, this is how much joe average spends on getting from point A to point B every year, rather than saying "OMG cars are evil bad money sinkholes of DEATH!!" it's a pretty informative page, overall...even if some of the stats are skewed.