But you still have to pay insurance, even if you leave the car at home
so that cost is fixed. Unless you don't have a car at all.

RP
On 25/05/07, Harold Hallikainen <harold@hallikainen.org> wrote:
> My wife and I ride the bus from the city we live in to the city we work
> in. I then bicycle the rest of the way to work. The bus pass is $30 per
> month. With current gas prices, the commute would be $7 per day in gas
> (gas prices here are about $3.50 per gallon today). I keep close tabs on
> our expenses and find that insurance and maintenance runs about 2.5 times
> as much as we spend on gas. So, that's about $17.50 per day (a little over
> $350 per month) versus $60 per month for our two bus passes. We spend
> about a little under an hour each way. It's a chance to read, visit with
> friends (we have a good group of people on this bus that is usually full).
>
> I think the bus gets something like 5 miles per gallon and holds about 50
> people, so that's 250 passenger miles per gallon. It'd be very difficult
> for a car to do that well.
>
> We used to live close enough to work that my wife walked to work and I
> bicycled. That was ideal, but, in order to buy a home, we had to move to
> another city.
>
> Per capita energy consumption is an interesting issue. So is the number of
> "capitas".
>
> Harold
>
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