Poll -- How do you get to work, and how much does it cost you?

How do you get to work and back?

  • Automobile

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Public Transit

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Bicycle, Walk, Jog, Skateboard, etc.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Taxi

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I don't have a job you insensitive clod!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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With the rising cost of fossil fuels, I'm just curious as to how people around the world get to work, and how much it costs them. Please calculate only the fuel cost, toll cost, etc. Do not figure insurance, oil changes, vehicle depreciation, or anything else. Just the immediate costs involved. Toll roads are an immediate cost for the purposes of this poll.


I drive a car. It costs me about $6.50 in gas to get to work and back home (round trip).
 
Its about a half hour drive each way for me and 50 minutes on weekends (different location). i figure about $25 every 4-5 days in the honda.
 
I didn't vote in the poll but my commute is 27 miles each way. Back when gas prices first went up around $3.50 I was riding a Honda VFR averaging 42mpg. Now I drive a 2007 Hyundai elantra and average around 34mpg. I'm going to try occasionally riding my 1983 honda moped which averages around 72mpg but also adds 10min each way to the trip.
 
Bike or kicking rocks for me, but I only live 4 blocks away. And it costs me nothin :D
 
180 miles round trip, plus two toll bridges and parking in San Francisco. Call it $40.
 
It's about 15 miles one way for me, so figure about 300 miles per pay period. My car gets about 24mpg. @ $3.50/gal, that gives me about 44$ every 2 weeks , or $4.40 per day.

I can live with that.
 
Way too far, and way too much $$.

33 miles one way and MD roads during the week are the worst.
 
At the very least 375miles a week, usually over 450. Car gets around 20-22 mpg, but haven't calculated it lately so could be more. Also, I only work 2 days, so gas takes over 75% of my paycheck.
 
Mr. Sogetsu said:
At the very least 375miles a week, usually over 450. Car gets around 20-22 mpg, but haven't calculated it lately so could be more. Also, I only work 2 days, so gas takes over 75% of my paycheck.
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Wow! I hope that is 75% of your after-tax income. Otherwise, you're losing money. :)
 
I think it costs me about $1.00 a day in fuel.

I drive a Ford Explorer.

Unless I have to go somewhere out of the ordinary, I only fill my 20 gallon tank every six weeks or so.
 
Drive. It's 34 miles round trip, and since I am a consultant, I get $0.51 cents/mile plus reimbursement of the $1.30 tolls.
 
6 miles one way and I drive my wifes old 2005 Kia Rio so I can fill up at around 30.00 and I drive on that for about 2-3 weeks, including other erands.
 
My office is exactly 12 miles from my house, so the commute is 24 miles/day round-trip. My car used to get about 32MPG, but then the State decided we all needed to use 10% less fossil fuel, so they put 10% alcohol into our gas and now my car gets 25MPG. (Yes, the fuel I'm burning is 10% less fossil fuel, but I'm burning 22% more of it, so it's a net loss. This is a common finding of Oregon drivers. But environmentalist-whackos can't do simple math and so we're stuck with it.) As a result, I burn just about one gallon/day. My little Mercedes only likes high-test. The last tank cost
$3.999 per gallon. So, I spend about four bucks a day on the commute.

I could take public transit for my 12-mile-each-way commute. I just checked it and according to TriMet's TripCheck website, that would cost $2.35 each way ($4.70 total, more than driving by car), involve walking 9/10 mile each way which would not be difficult for me but would be 7.5% of the total commute, and would take 91 minutes each way (including 35 minutes each way of waiting), a total of thee hours of commuting for eight hours of working.
 
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Toyz said:
MD roads during the week are the worst.
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If you are going to the mountains or down the shore, just forget it if you leave after 5 AM.

At least 45 miles an hour one way, driving a van right now because it's all I've got, which gets horrible MPG. Sitting in bumper to bumper traffic doesn't work either (rush hour all morning and all evening). At the rate gas prices are rising, I don't even want to think about how much it will cost next week. Prices have gone up about ten cents in the last week here.

I have noticed a lot less traffic on the roads lately, and am damn glad to have a job to spend all this money on gas to get to!
 
1 liter of unleaded fuel costs 2,3 USD here.

With my current car it costs about 17 USD a day driving to and from work. Thats a 56 mile roundtrip per day.

But one gets a tax reduction for any distance covered over 15 miles. Its still expensive though. On average i use about 370 USD per month on gas.
 
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I take the LIRR and a monthly ticket costs $299 a month (up from $274 last year). It's about 1.5 hrs each way, 3hrs total commuting per day. I can sleep through most of that though.
 
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60 miles round trip. 60 miles divided 18 mpg times $4.30 for diesel equals $14.30 per day or $72.00 per week.
 
I work on a laptop at my kitchen table. Its rough.

I do take my progeny to school and pick them up. Its 11 miles one way, or 44 miles a day, Tues - Friday. My '09 Suburban gets 15mpg if I baby it. So thats about 12 gallons per week, or $45 or so per week just for school. So in the range of $200 per month just for that, and I do a good amount of additional driving here and there.

Mrs. Powernoodle drives maybe 30 miles round trip each day, getting ~24mpg in an '08 CR-V. So lets say $5 per day for her.

Thats $5 for gas on Monday, and $17 on Tues - Friday. Plus whatever additional driving we do, which can be considerable.

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