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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!busker
- From: busker@seanews.akita.com (matt blumenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Transit system in Seattle (Re: Following distance Was (Re: Why C
- Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News + Mail
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:38:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <2ew2XB2w165w@seanews.akita.com>
- References: <1993Jan27.002603.11066@fnx.uucp>
- Sender: _busker@seanews.akita.com
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- del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
-
- > In <1993Jan22.205122.14187@ssc.com> fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > --
- > del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
- > Who is John Galt?
-
- Na, it's valid anyway. Anything you spend on your car has to be paid for.
- This includes insurance, gas, parking, etc.. You have to work to pay for
- this stuff. HOURS WORKED + HOURS DRIVING / MILES TRAVELLED = REAL SPEED.
- Assuming this to be true, an older car goes faster, since the insurance
- is cheaper... :) :) :) L8R...
-
- Sig files?!?!?!? *WE* don' NEED no stinkin' Sig files!
- busker@seanews.akita.com
-