Gas... and mass transit.

[strredwolf]

Gas is now hovering $3 here in Maryland, and predicted to go to $3.50 (and that's for one gallon).  It makes me wonder...

$3.50 for a gallon of gas.  That's $52.50 for a 15 gallon tank -- and I belive you have to fill up at least twice, if not three times, a month.

Compare with mass transit.  In Maryland, $3.50 is an all-day pass on most transit systems.  A monthly pass is $64 flat -- that's 18 and nearly a third gallons, and you get to travel EVERYWHERE that's covered.  If you reduce your fillups to like 1-2 a month just by doing that, then you're set!

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[kazriko.livejournal.com]

I fill my car 6 times a month at worst. 4 times at best. I have $150 budgeted out for it. My car has a 12.5 gallon tank but I always fill it pretty close to exactly 10 gallons low. Each fillup had been around $25 until recently, when it spiked up a bit to $27. It'd be about $29 now.

Unfortunately, our mass transit here shuts down HARD at 6pm sharp. This, combined with the fact that it takes 2 hours to get from my house to work on it with 3 transfers, makes it completely unusable to me. (The same trip is 20 minutes with a car.)

You could get yourself a VW Jetta at about 50mpg diesel and fuel up half as often as I do.