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- From: del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Transit system in Seattle (Re: Following distance Was (Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!))
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002603.11066@fnx.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:26:03 GMT
- References: <josh.727643608@pogo> <1993Jan22.205122.14187@ssc.com>
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- In <1993Jan22.205122.14187@ssc.com> fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
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- >In a book by Ernest Callenbach about making living choices (I forget the
- >name of the book) he points out that a realistic way to think about a car
- >is that you must add the time you work to support your car when you figure
- >how "fast" in gets you around. His calculation showed that once the costs
- >of an average car (purchase, maintenance, insurance, parking, etc) was
- >paid for in the amount of time you needed to work to get the necessary
- >money that cars only transported you at about 6 miles per hour.
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- This calculation is, of course, only valid if the only reason you have
- a car is for commuting to and from work. Assuming you would have a car
- regardless of it's use to go to/from work, the calculation cannot
- include purchase price. Only mileage costs including parking and that
- portion of insurance and maintanence that is incrementally attributable
- to it's use for commuting may be included in the calculation.
-
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- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
- Who is John Galt?
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