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driving costs

Submitted by Carrie Kirby on October 23, 2007 - 05:58.

I used the AAA's driving costs estimates found here:

http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com/Main/Default.asp?CategoryID=3&SubCategor...

It says the average medium sedan costs 52 cents a mile to drive.

However, it's based on $2.26/gallon gas, which I haven't seen in the Chicago area, well, ever since moving here last year. Also, our car is 4-wheel drive (Subaru Forester) which ups the gas consumption. So actually, I should have used a higher number in my cost estimate.

Yeah, it does kind of stink that they charged us for the 3-year-old, but a lot of places do. 

To the Pennsylvania guest -- yeah, we visited an apple orchard in Wisconsin also this year, in a much more rural area, and there was a van full of Amish people there. We didn't pick our own at that orchard, but I did notice that the apples we bought were much cheaper than those I'd picked in Illinois. 

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