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Originally Posted by cdnjeepin
I drive a Jetta Diesel....To go to work and back is 30kms a day.
Its getting 44mpg or 18.7km/L so yes just under $2.00 a day to get to work.
Now if I have to go to town later in the day, or want to go out for supper, or anything extra in my life another trip to town is $2.00, then any running around town is no doubt another $2.00 worth of gas...so now its $6.00 a day.. So $30 a week in just the necessities...right now I am burning on average $50 a week in fuel...and I do not really go anywhere..just into town and doing my normal things.
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Things are just not getting cheaper here, they are gonna continue to rise and rise...I wouldn't care if my check went with the rises..but it doesn't..its costing a lot more to live these days...hydro went up, cable/phone/internet went up, fuel is always going up, pretty much everything...just leaves me with less spendable income...
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Hmm, how do I respond to this?
First, if you consider going "out for supper" one of your "necessities," then I think that speaks volumes on your budgetary problems. Here's a wild and cracy idea. If you have to "go to town" to do pretty much anything, then why don't you go there, do what you need done, and then go back home, instead of driving to town and back, repeatedly, several times a day, destroying our environment and burning
non-renewable fossil fuels, the price of which can
only go up?
Secondly, I don't suppose you realize that
TTC transit fare is more than two dollars? That's
not a round trip, either. So, all the minimum wage workers of
Toronto manage to live their lives seemingly paying twice as much as you would for their transportation. Ponder how they get through while you whine about gas prices...
Oh, and don't get me started on other utilities... Do you have any idea how much electricity
really costs? It is so serverely subsidized that, around here, it only costs ¢6.7 / kW hour. I assure you, people would be far more careful with their energy use if our government charged people what electricity actually costs! What an eye opener that would be for the people...