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I too enjoy driving. A nice smooth country road with a decent handling vehicle is one of the joys of life.
I could not make it too work from where I live without my vehicle. I could ride my bicycle, but it was already 79 degrees F this morning at 7:00 am. I'd get too sweaty for working in the office. Even though I work in the city limits of Tulsa, we have no public transportation in our area. 99% of our public transport never leaves the downtown area.
I average about 18,000 miles per year on the road. That works out to around 960 gallons of gasoline for my truck at around $1.30 a gallon or about $1250.00 a year in fuel. Insurance is about $1100.00 a year. License tag is around $185.00 this year. My payments run me about $350.00 a month and oil changes run me about $80.00 a year. Thsi runs me $7165.00 a year without anything untoward happening. Per day it is $19.60 . I could cut my fuel costs near in half by changing vehicles to one in the 30 mpg range instead of the 19 mpg I get now. Hmmm, that Focus I was looking at just got a little more attractive.
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