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

How do you get to work and back?

  • Automobile

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  • Public Transit

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  • Bicycle, Walk, Jog, Skateboard, etc.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Taxi

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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

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Like PowerNoodle, I tele-commute... The wife is a stay at home mom, so the only regularly scheduled driving is taking the young-un to school Monday - Friday and that's just a 2 mile round trip. A tank of gas in both our cars can easily last for 6 to 8 weeks.

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It's a 30 mile round trip at 35 mpg, so about $3.50/day plus $0.75 each way on the toll road. Looks like an even $5.00 for me.

ETA: This is 6 days/week, so roughly 10% of my check is for travel.

ETA again: I work with a close friend and we ride together and split expenses, so my cost if half of this.
 
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My commute to work consists of one flight of stairs - probably not even worth calculating the calories burnt to get to the office.
 
Usually my car does work and back duty only. An occasional weekend run to the lake.

33 Miles each way. ~11 gallons/week. At the current price per gallon I'm spending about $180/month in my car. The wife spends considerably less.
 
my drive is 34 miles round trip, 4 days per week unless i pick up an overtime shift (extremely rare).

my car gets about 36 mpg, on average.

so currently about $4.00 per day.
 
Takes me about 2 hrs to do the 45 miles (round-trip). Luckily, my car (8 years old) gets pretty high mileage.

With the price of gas I saw on my way home today ... that would be ... $8.03 per day. But that price is going up.

Given where I live and where I work, it's either the car or become a master of on and off road biking.
 
mtb-i've got road tyres on & i've smashed the 9min record getting to work-about 3km.
 
PropThePolecat said:
What does 1 litre of fuel currently cost in the US?
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I live in Oroville, WA, just south of Osoyoos, BC. I work for Customs and Border Protection so see lots of Canadians every day. Right now they are paying 1.30/liter and we are paying $3.98/gal. So they pay $5.20 for a gallon and a tad more. I guess that means we pay slightly more or less than $1/liter.

I drive about 12 miles round trip and can get up to 15 mpg so that's probably around $3.20 per day :eek:
 
WA Martin said:
I live in Oroville, WA, just south of Osoyoos, BC. I work for Customs and Border Protection so see lots of Canadians every day. Right now they are paying 1.30/liter and we are paying $3.98/gal. So they pay $5.20 for a gallon and a tad more. I guess that means we pay slightly more or less than $1/liter.
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:eek: Now i understand how you can afford to drive around in your gas-guzzling SUV's!

We're paying +/- 2.3 USD per liter here in Europe. Thats around 8.7 USD per gallon.
 
As of the last fill-up in my truck, it is costing me $5.83 / day to commute to work.

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I have one of those "average" 10-mile commutes, and I drive a Hyundai Elantra which probably gets 25-30 mpg. (I've never bothered to measure). Currently, I drive to the cheap-parking garage and bicycle to the station which is only a mile.
I was riding the metrolink, which did cut my commute about in half. The metrolink was free for me if I went in uniform. However, they re-arranged the schedule and it was a serious annoyance getting to the train. Missing my one time made we wait for 30 minutes for the next train.
I would seriously consider parking further and riding my bike further, but there are no safe routes. With changing schedules in police work, I'd be riding late at night for much of the year.
 
I'm 17 miles from my office; my Ranger gets 17 miles per gallon, so about $7.50 a day in gas 5 or 6 days a week. I have no idea what my "fixed" costs (i.e. insurance, car repairs, etc) are.
 
I was devastated when the plant I had worked at for many years moved production overseas last year. I was driving 100 miles round trip, 5 days per week plus occasional call-ins. My new job is 7 miles round trip, 4 days per week which cost me about $5/week in my truck at the current gasoline price.
 
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