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Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train?
grepdisc writes "Newspapers in Boston are fawning over a report by the American Public Transportation Association that taking public transportation saves money over driving. How can one possibly save $12,600 per year, when the inflated estimates of 15,000 miles per year at only 23.4 miles and $2.039 per gallon costs only $1,310, and a high parking rate of $460 per month results in under $5600. Is the discrepancy made up of tolls, repairs, the cost of buying a car and ignoring train station parking fees?" Everyone's situation is different — and it's easy to have a chip on one's shoulder while estimating prices. But for those of you with the option, what kind of savings do you find (or would you expect) from taking one form of transport to work over another?
But Boston didn't swallow.
420 ride transit every day
Here in EU we don't have cars, we only use public transport.
Perhaps not normal, but here's the math:
At around $100/tank of fuel, and a little less than 1 tank of fuel per week it comes to around $7k/year
If it costs you $100/tank, you're in one of those shithole commie countries where 90% of the cost of fuel is taxes, or else you were driving something like a Hummer. Even at the height of gas shock, I was still under $50 for a 300-mile fillup.
My loan payments were $650/month
Insurance payments were another $450/month
Again lending credence to the idea that your "savings" are due to the fact that you had a stupidly overpriced, oversized vehicle.
Hmmm. Either
How about having to share your commute with niggers, chinks, wet-backs, jews, and fucking white trash??
Isn't time spent with the gutter rats of society worth something?