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Maybe it's a secret health food (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty easy to do in excel. Or on a napkin.

I bought my Honda Civic about 9 years ago for, let's just say 20k including interest on the loan. I could look more into it, but let's say $500 a year on average for service and $1000 a year on insurance. Gas has been pretty constantly $3/gal and mileage at 30 miles per gallon so that's ten cents a mile. Driven 110,000 miles so that's $11,000 in gasoline.

So all and all ownership has been about 20k+4.5k+9k+11k or $45,000 divided by 110,000 miles.

That's about 40 cents a mile. Woooo! I'm probably under estimating the service costs as they have really escalated recently. The IRS says it costs 55 cents a mile to service a car. So yeah. You shouldn't think of any short trip as free. It probably costs 50 cents to drive every mile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You're paying $5000 per year, which is in line with this Study which estimates 5500€ per year