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Originally Posted by Elli
My friend's car costs $.10 a km in gas, and she drives 40k each way to work. She's young, so she gets paid $10 an hour right now. Almost a whole hour of every day is spent just paying for her travel to get to work. That's just not cool. I would call that a very frustrating situation.
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I thought $0.10 per kilometre sounded "expensive" until I worked it out for my car...
14L / 100km average consumption (6 cylinder 4.0 litre w/ full time climate control)
x $AUD1.60 per litre cost
= $AUD22.40 per 100km
or $AUD0.224 per km (about $USD0.22/km or $0.35 per mile)
I know some people who travel every day to a job 100km away. Obviously the fuel consumption is better at highway speeds but it's still a fair amount of petrol (around $USD30 per day), and more importantly, wear and tear on the mechanicals. To stick to defined service intervals they'd need to have their car done every 45-60 days.