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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 10, 2012, 11:09:57 AM
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Oh my.
taterguy (25,841 posts)
How much does it cost you to get to work?
A variation on the gas price theme since I think that's rather meaningless.
We all consume different amounts of gas.
So, on an average day, how much do you spend getting to work?
62 votes, 0 passes
0-$1.00 20 (32%)
$1.00 - $2.00 5 (8%)
2.00 -5.00 17 (27%)
5.00 -10.00 9 (15%)
More than $10.00 10 (16%)
Too damn much 1 (2%)
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BiggJawn (23,036 posts)
1. If you factor in the psychic costs...
It's way too damn much.
Our budget gets cut so much I'm surprised we don't have to bring our own lights from home.
About a gallon and a 1/2 a day of gas.
Nay (4,959 posts)
2. 18 miles to work and back -- about 3/4 gal of gas. Plus $3.00 in tolls. Will be glad to retire and have that money back!
exboyfil (2,156 posts)
16. I am also thinking going down to one car
will save alot of money as well. If I lived alone and did not have to go to work, I would probably go down to no cars and really save a bundle.
JustAnotherGen (3,814 posts)
3. More than $10
I commute round trip 35 miles a day - but I also have upkeep of an Altima (2006 I purchased new). It has 103k miles on it. My parents had one in 1995 they drove for 10 years - then gave to my brother. He killed it at 280K Miles. So - the input of car maintenance (which I do measure weekly) means I don't have to think of another car for 7 or 8 years.
Also - though I live in NJ - I'm commuting from Bridgewater to Basking Ridge. I can't afford to live in Basking Ridge - well I could . . . but then that means I would be living 'at means' instead of 'below means'. And I would still have a two mile walk to work on 'rural roads' i.e. no sidewalks if took the train from Bridgewater or Somerville to Basking Ridge.
riderinthestorm (8,962 posts)
4. I work at home BUT we do have gas usage for tractors here on the farm so my footprint isn't zero.
get the red out (5,501 posts)
5. I'm very fortunate
I drive a hybrid and live about 3 1/2 miles from work. That's just about optimal and I know my case is a very fortunate one.
bhikkhu (6,273 posts)
6. Its a 3 mile bike ride each way mostly on bike trails, so it works well rain or shine or snow. It takes about the same amount of time as driving.
thecrow (4,092 posts)
8. Since 2008? Nothing.
You DO NOT want to know how life has been since.
Hmmmm.
Since 2008?
One wonders what's up with that.....
CTyankee (28,853 posts)
9. I'm with you. I retired in 2004 (forced out, age related).
My psychic cost was the biggest factor. Had a frail, elderly mother and disabled brother plus my 4th grandchild expected in the summer of that year. Time to go on SS and find a part time job, which I had until May of 2007 (illness). Then full retirement. No desire to ever go back to paid employment (I volunteer).
hfojvt (28,726 posts)
10. about 65 cents it seems
5 years is about 1,000 work days, and a new bike is about $650.
rug (37,622 posts)
11. Nothing. It's four blocks away.
flvegan (61,291 posts)
12. Between 7 and 8 bucks.
Add in delays due to knuckledragging mouthbreather troglodytes that can't manage to keep their automobile between two sets of lines without plowing into another automobile.
While I admit that people should have the right to be stupid, it shouldn't cost me time and money.
DotGone (73 posts)
13. Nothing now since I'm unemployed but when I was working, $20/day in gas and tolls
$20/day is a lot when you're only making $8-$10/hr.
Swede (26,464 posts)
14. I estimate $80-100 per month in gas.
That's is a ballpark number,but I have never accurately nailed it down.
SGMRTDARMY (381 posts)
15. Nothing
I'm retired from the Army.
A couple of years ago, I tried to figure out how much it was costing me to get to work, and gave it up.
And even if I'd figured it out, the numbers would be invalid now, given the escalating cost of gasoline under the Magic One's regime.
I do a lot of things, nearly all of them associated with accounting. If such work is around, to keep in shape and mix with the hoi polloi, the commoners--:whatever:--if the work's there, I'll go out and unload trucks for several days at a time.
No stress, no anxieties, wonderful intellectual inspiration, in doing manual work.
Anyway, it's 17 miles to the nearest "regular" job two times a week, and 130 miles to the nearest "big" job (forensic accounting) upon demand, maybe about four times a month. And there's two other "steady" jobs in between those ranges.
I never did figure it out; only that since January 21, 2009, it's more expensive than ever.
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Maybe a $1-$2 to and from work each day. I don't know. Don't pay much attention. I didn't buy my car for the MPG rating. My commute is a straight shot south for six mile drive (one way). When we move to our new house, my commute will be 14 miles, but the speed limit will be 55mph for most of my commute. It doesn't seem so far away when I drive from work to the construction site. I never mapped it out until right now. lol
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The last I checked the official deduction for mileage was $.50/mile. If you can use that as a deduction.
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I'm about 17 miles from work--in the morning, when I drop off my daughter at day care. In the evening, it's closer to 14.
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Why didn't I see anyone in that complain about Obama pushing the price up, and how he is bed with the oil companies? Oh, wait, never mind; that will change when Romney gets elected.
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BiggJawn (23,036 posts)
1. If you factor in the psychic costs...
It's way too damn much.
Our budget gets cut so much I'm surprised we don't have to bring our own lights from home.
About a gallon and a 1/2 a day of gas.
Psychic costs? Does he take Miss Cleo with him or something?
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Quit your bitching DUmmies....it cost us taxpayers $186,000.00 an hour to get Obama back and forth to work/golf/basketball/dinner/vacation and that don't includ Moochelle and her crowd.
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There is talk about a travel tax. What will they do if that is implemented?
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There is talk about a travel tax. What will they do if that is implemented?
Nevada wants(ed) to implement something like that. Fifteen cents per mile driven. Something stupid like that. I haven't heard anything about it for quite sometime though.
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Nevada wants(ed) to implement something like that. Fifteen cents per mile driven. Something stupid like that. I haven't heard anything about it for quite sometime though.
Any eeeediot (quite deliberate misspelling) who backed something like that would have his/her ass thrown out of office in the next election.
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Nevada wants(ed) to implement something like that. Fifteen cents per mile driven. Something stupid like that. I haven't heard anything about it for quite sometime though.
I just saw a 30 second sound bite on one of the news stations the other day about how they (The government) still wanted to implement it.
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I just saw a 30 second sound bite on one of the news stations the other day about how they (The government) still wanted to implement it.
They would have a hard time implementing it though. They would have to install a device on everyone's car to track it. It would be something easily installed on all newer vehicles from the factory, but how would they possibly get all the people in there with older cars? The only way they could do it is to make it mandatory to have it installed at the DMV or have it installed (by some government agency) before you could register your car. I just don't see that happening.
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I have a 45 mile commute one-way, 6 days a week, then I run a mail route.
I use and maintain 2 bring cars for this job, both have over 250K miles each.
My gas alone is around $500-600 a month, plus $70 a month for insurance!
Maintenance runs about another $100-200 a month. This is just on the cars I use for WORK!
So, if any DUmmie lurks here and reads this post, I mean it from the bottom of my heart when I say to you:
:redbird:
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They would have a hard time implementing it though. They would have to install a device on everyone's car to track it. It would be something easily installed on all newer vehicles from the factory, but how would they possibly get all the people in there with older cars? The only way they could do it is to make it mandatory to have it installed at the DMV or have it installed (by some government agency) before you could register your car. I just don't see that happening.
It would be easier to just increase the gas tax. Don't get me wrong I hate that idea too, but of the 2 evils I'd rather have that then the government nosing around on how much I drive.
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They would have a hard time implementing it though. They would have to install a device on everyone's car to track it. It would be something easily installed on all newer vehicles from the factory, but how would they possibly get all the people in there with older cars? The only way they could do it is to make it mandatory to have it installed at the DMV or have it installed (by some government agency) before you could register your car. I just don't see that happening.
I am thinking that one of the hold ups is that they are having a hard time figuring out how to implement it. I am sure once they figure it out, they will bring it on full speed ahead.
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I am thinking that one of the hold ups is that they are having a hard time figuring out how to implement it. I am sure once they figure it out, they will bring it on full speed ahead.
By that time, spending will be cut way below the need for stupid schemes like this.
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By that time, spending will be cut way below the need for stupid schemes like this.
I hope that is the case.
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taterguy rides a bicycle every time he goes some place. He doesn't own a vehicle.
He was the guy that hit a car that was backing out of the driveway a few years back. The spud T-boned him. Totaled his bike. He tried to borrow one from his fellow DUmmies but was unsuccessful. I believe that the consensus was that he totaled his bike, why would I let him total my bike.
He was madder than a wet hen.
It was one of the funnier tales of woe.
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The owebuma administration has authorized the use of drones on the civilian populace, with enough droves, and enough coverage, implementing a mileage tax would be as easy as implementing the red light running camera ticket mailers.
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85 votes, 1 pass
0-$1.00 31 (36%)
$1.00 - $2.00 6 (7%)
2.00 -5.00 22 (26%)
5.00 -10.00 12 (14%)
More than $10.00 13 (15%)
Too damn much 1 (1%)
The taterguy primitive inadvertently handed us the unemployment rate of Skin's Island on a silver platter- 36%.
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The taterguy primitive inadvertently handed us the unemployment rate of Skin's Island on a silver platter- 36%.
Not quite. Some did say they ride bikes. Me I walk the two blocks to work so I spend $0 on gas per week.
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my company provides a vehicle and ect... I'm not a DUmmie, I get paid to go to work.
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Not quite. Some did say they ride bikes. Me I walk the two blocks to work so I spend $0 on gas per week.
Dummies lie, DUmmies lie all the time. :tongue: :-)
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Dummies lie, DUmmies lie all the time. :tongue: :-)
It's liberal rule number one. Coincidentally it's muslim rule number one when they interact with infidels. A muslim is always supposed to be honest with fellow muslims, but their habits with infidels are hard to control, especially when they are killing indiscriminately, including fellow muslims.