View Poll Results: Price of travel
$100 to $200
10
62.50%
$201 to $300
1
6.25%
$301 to $400
3
18.75%
$401 to $500
0
0%
$501 to $600
0
0%
Unimaginable - nuclear fuel
0
0%
I just don't know - GOVT provided trans
0
0%
Nothing - I charge it off to taxes
1
6.25%
I live on the boat
0
0%
My name is "J-ROD"
1
6.25%
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ABOVE 100 bucks commute per week thread
Posting Guru
Joined: Apr 2005
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From: Hawkeye Country
Holy crap! are some of fellas driving over a 100 miles to work and back? I thought I had it bad, I only burn about 50 bucks worth of gas a week. That's to work, school, to the store, and everywhere else I go. Also consider that I drive my 86 F150 daily, she gets about 12 mpg. Like jake00 I only commute around 10 miles a day.
For now it still aint worth it for me to sink a bunch of money on a smaller vehicle just to conserve fuel costs, although I'd buy a 500 dollar running beater Escort or Taurus in a heart beat.
For now it still aint worth it for me to sink a bunch of money on a smaller vehicle just to conserve fuel costs, although I'd buy a 500 dollar running beater Escort or Taurus in a heart beat.
Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,770
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From: The Great North~West!
Yup,,, I drive anywhere from 125 to 195 each day, just to get to work and back. That does not count detours for the store or other errands. Probably the only drawback to living in the boonies!!!
Elder User
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 549
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From: Kansas City, KS
Let's see.. my commute is 15 miles around trip and the Ranger has been getting 30mpg. One week I work 4 the next 3 so I'll figure 7 and divide. $6.62 with gas prices at $3.78. We've thought about moving out of the city but you can't beat how close we're to everything. Just use the money we save to travel is the plan.. I think.
Elder User
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 846
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From: Paris, Arkansas
I drive 80 miles round trip 5 days a week. In the truck, ouch. BUT, i got a 99 Escort ZX2 Sport for that trip. Getting 35 mpg hand calculated. Less than $10/day.
I sure miss driving my truck daily though.......................
I sure miss driving my truck daily though.......................
Gone but not forgotten.
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 6,521
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My first motor vehicle, a whizzer motor bike, cost me almost nothing to operate. I would make the rounds of local service stations draining the residual gas into the 1 gallon tank. Occasionally I would buy a nickle or a dime's worth (at about .25 per gallon). I was 12 years old ..... wish I still had that old Whizzer.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 20,589
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From: Charlotte, NC
Lots of municipalities and counties are toying with the idea of 4-day workweeks......which would help the situation some.
In professions like firefighting, they've been able to stretch it to 3-day workweeks......Particularly in places like NYC, where local housing is cost-prohibitive, and the firemen might live 60 to 80 miles away. Seems like a lot (it is).....but when you drive to work 2X or 3X per week instead of 5X.......It's doable.
I would LOVE a 4-day workweek..........Day 1 of a 2-day 'weekend' is usually a recovery day anyway......3 would be nice.
In professions like firefighting, they've been able to stretch it to 3-day workweeks......Particularly in places like NYC, where local housing is cost-prohibitive, and the firemen might live 60 to 80 miles away. Seems like a lot (it is).....but when you drive to work 2X or 3X per week instead of 5X.......It's doable.
I would LOVE a 4-day workweek..........Day 1 of a 2-day 'weekend' is usually a recovery day anyway......3 would be nice.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 20,589
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From: Charlotte, NC
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Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 26,337
Likes: 12
From: Paradise Found!
My first motor vehicle, a whizzer motor bike, cost me almost nothing to operate. I would make the rounds of local service stations draining the residual gas into the 1 gallon tank. Occasionally I would buy a nickle or a dime's worth (at about .25 per gallon). I was 12 years old ..... wish I still had that old Whizzer.
I too road a Whizzer when I was a kid, then an old WWII Harley "45" stripped down. Went on to owning 12 more Harley's (maybe that's where my son got his name?). Then in 1972 an old family friend turned me on to an old Indian (1935) Haven't looked back. I now have 6 Indians, and I'm trying to buy an Indian "4" from Texas. Try here: rbike2
You can also buy a new one here: http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/
My son-in-law just bought an Ambassador for his commute (7 miles) 120 miles/gal
Gone but not forgotten.
Joined: Jul 2001
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Don't really care for your politics dono, but anybody that road an old Whizzer can't be all bad! I too road a Whizzer when I was a kid, then an old WWII Harley "45" stripped down. Went on to owning 12 more Harley's (maybe that's where my son got his name?). Then in 1972 an old family friend turned me on to an old Indian (1935) Haven't looked back. I now have 6 Indians, and I'm trying to buy an Indian "4" from Texas.
Try here: rbike2
You can also buy a new one here: http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/
My son-in-law just bought an Ambassador for his commute (7 miles) 120 miles/gal
I too road a Whizzer when I was a kid, then an old WWII Harley "45" stripped down. Went on to owning 12 more Harley's (maybe that's where my son got his name?). Then in 1972 an old family friend turned me on to an old Indian (1935) Haven't looked back. I now have 6 Indians, and I'm trying to buy an Indian "4" from Texas. Try here: rbike2
You can also buy a new one here: http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/
My son-in-law just bought an Ambassador for his commute (7 miles) 120 miles/gal
I love old motorcycles and would buy the right antique in a split second. I bought that Whizzer for $12. Got it cheap because it wouldn't run and the clutch (slip-belt) didn't work. A set of points got it running and I wired the clutch into operating position until I finally got the money to buy the spring. I had only 1 Harley, a "61" inch knuckelhead.
That Ambassador is a nice looking little machine, a motorcycle - not a converted bike.
I'm still looking for an old bike, almost bought a '60 Matchless, but decided it was too modern. I envy you those Indians ..... Indians have "personality".
Senior User
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 115
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From: okc
fuel usage
I don't commute to work, I drive and live in an '07 Peterbilt. Try filling that sucker up 2-4 time a week at $800-$900 a fillup. No question in my mind why things are costing more!! About 5 months ago, I bought a '95 Honda Goldwing for running errands and to get parts, 35-40 mpg is better than my 4x4 '99 F-150which gets around 16 on the highway, don't know what city mileage is, scared to find out.
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