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Cars are unfortunately too cheap. My last car was a basic VW polo, and the insurance was £350/year, road tax £99 and probably £200 a year amortized over the 5 y
by maccard 5y ago
Cars are unfortunately too cheap. My last car was a basic VW polo, and the insurance was £350/year, road tax £99 and probably £200 a year amortized over the 5 years on servicing/wear and year, with a 400 mile range on ~£50 worth of fuel. The break even point on that is ~5-6 trips per year, and much lower if you use the car for basically anything else. I can fly to eastern Europe for £15, but the transit to the airport is more expensive than that in my city.
- Retric 5y agoWhat about parking? In major cities that’s is frequently the biggest expense at ~£100/month it really adds up.
- vdqtp3 5y agoIn major US cities, it's largely free. Whether you see that as a benefit or a negative probably depends on your side of the argument.
- Leherenn 5y agoAnd it's even worse when you consider you can add people for almost no extra costs, whereas with public transportation it mostly multiplies.
- jppope 5y agoArguably they aren't cheap... they're just able to externalize their greatest cost: roads. If the cost of building and maintaining the US road system were baked into say the cost of gas or registration... you would be looking at an entirely different cost of ownership.