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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Who's putting $200 of gas in their car per month, what you doing driving the Route 66 on a weekly basis? The shops all of 5 miles away if it's that.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago

Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.

Wouldn't have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.

[–] ijustliketrains@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I did when I had a really shitty commute for about a year and a half. Crazy thing is it wasn’t even that bad compared to some of my coworkers there.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If your commute is about an hour each way you're probably spending roughly that much.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 5 hours ago

Not having a car wouldn't be an option then.