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Owning, maintaining, fueling, and insuring a car is much more expensive than walking, biking, and taking public transportation. Both in end-user costs and overa
by stetrain 4y ago
Owning, maintaining, fueling, and insuring a car is much more expensive than walking, biking, and taking public transportation. Both in end-user costs and overall per-capita cost of transportation.
But in much of the US having your own car (one for every adult in the household) is basically a requirement to hold a job.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThis is more true in Europe, though, than many people seem to think. Car ownership around the world is very common.
- stetrain 4y agoTrue, but there is a greater percentage of the population living in places where one car per adult is not a hard requirement. And there are probably fewer 20mi+ commutes among car owners.