Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.
Wouldn’t have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.
That’s about the same for me, but it’s about a 15 min bike ride (approx 3-4 miles away). The problem is, it would take me ~2 hours to do my 25 mile commute by transit, vs 35 min by car. In fact, I could probably bike it faster than transit.
Who’s putting $200 of gas in their car per month, what you doing driving the Route 66 on a weekly basis? The shops all of 5 miles away if it’s that.
Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.
Wouldn’t have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.
If your commute is about an hour each way you’re probably spending roughly that much.
Not having a car wouldn’t be an option then.
Trains exist
Places that are nowhere near a train also exist.
That’s completely dependent on where you live. The closest train station to me is an hour and fifteen minutes walk from me.
That’s about the same for me, but it’s about a 15 min bike ride (approx 3-4 miles away). The problem is, it would take me ~2 hours to do my 25 mile commute by transit, vs 35 min by car. In fact, I could probably bike it faster than transit.
I did when I had a really shitty commute for about a year and a half. Crazy thing is it wasn’t even that bad compared to some of my coworkers there.