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Originally Posted by nrclark
.... he said he lived 15 kilometers from work, not 15 meters.
How the hell can you drive 30 kms on "the price of a cup of coffee"? ... unless you are driving a scooter? (and they're not practical in Canada for ten months of the year)
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Why do you find this so hard to believe?
If I were to buy a new car (I don't have a car so I don't worry about gas prices), I might buy a
Toyota Yaris. It's one of my favorite cars and it happens to be Toyota's cheapest, for those of you who think you're on a budget. It takes 7.1 litres of gas to go 100 kms in the city in this car (even less if you have access to a highway!). That's 7.1 * 30 / 100 = 2.13 litres. At about a buck a litre, that's about two bucks. A little more than what you'd pay for coffee at Tim Hortons but about as much as you'd pay if you went to Starbucks. Either way, if you can't fit that into your budget, you had financial issues before anything happened to the price of gas...