On Nov 9, 10:19 pm, benzzoy <benz...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The true cost of running a car is actually higher than what most > people think. The AAA estimates that overall, for an average driver > in an average car doing the national annual average distance of 15,000 > miles, it's $9,641 per year. That's that with the lower 2006 gasoline > prices. > > Obviously, one can go higher or lower than that, but the amount is > quite unlike what most will guess. > > Cite:http://tinyurl.com/37d5ev > > I don't believe even Rivendell charges that much for its beautiful > bags! :) >
Not to diverge from the original subject too much, but these costs also don't factor in the price that every living thing on the planet pays when people, collectively, drive cars. That is, beyond the ~120 americans fatally injured by automobiles everyday, the millions of cats/dogs/wild animals roadkilled every year, and so on. Read this book: http://www.carjacked.org/ and then tell everybody you know to read it, too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.