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Re: Gas prices and you
Sit down with a calculator and figure out how much your car costs you a month.
If you bought your car new start with the sticker price and sales tax, and figure it will last you 120,000 miles
add in yearly registration, your yearly insurance, oil and maintenance costs, tires, batteries
figure out how long you will own the car - then divide it out and see how much it cost to drive per mile?
then take your gas milage and figure out how much more it cost with the present price of gas?
even at $5 a gallon, the gasoline is only a small percentage of what it costs to drive a car.
for example, if you get 30mpg then at $3 a gallon your fuel cost is 10 cents a mile - but I think you will find all the other costs of owning a car are around 30 to 35 cents a mile
even at $5, the fuel cost is only 17 cents a mile. Thats still very cheap compared to the cost of the car itself.
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