Desperate Times Require Desperate Measures...

[beenthere]

So for a cost savings of about $2 per week, or $100 for a year, you will spend $50 to get the old bike going, and more money to keep it going, and the inconvenience of being out in the weather and the danger of being in 'the traffic on a bike'? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I don't see the economics here nor the sense of it all. So gas is about $0.50 per gal more. Seems not a big deal other than it isn't what we would all like to see it priced at.
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Still, compared to the 50's gas prices (which were around $0.32 cents a gal), its not that high now, relative to our wages now vs. then.

I'd keep driving the PU and stay warm, dry, and safer. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

You could walk as mentioned, and figure out how much that 1 hour walk (10 hours each week) would pay you back in gas savings (save about 4 gal of gas a week in the pickup?). You would then earn about $1.00 an hour walking, if I have it figured out right.

 

[hazmat]

With your short drive - the $$ don't matter much one way or the other. But, I do appluad you for cutting your fuel use by 80% /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif (100mpg vs 20mpg estimate)

I have a 20 mile commute to work. I sold my truck in march (14mpg) and got a honda accord 4cyl (31mpg). Wife has an SUV - we take the car whenever possible. Have driven 13,000 miles so far. I've saved 433 gallons of gas ~$1000 /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Ocassionally I miss the truck - like when i ripped the headliner in the wife's car loading plywood /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif but it is soooo nice to go 450 miles on 15 gallons /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif instead of 300 on 22 /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

The Mass legislature is talking about no sales tax (5%) on the purchase of a hybrid. If that were in effect I would have bought the hybrid accord, just to pay $1,500 less in taxes

 

[Alan L.]

I don't see how fuel cost can be an issue with an 8 mile round trip commute. Thats only 40 miles a week. If you get 10mpg thats 4 gallons, @ $2.50 thats $10 a week. If you got 30 mpg thats 1.33 gallons @ $2.50, or about $3.33. Thats a savings of a whopping $6.67 a week and you are probably getting more than 10 mpg right now.

I drive my pickup 120 miles a day and getting double the mileage would save me about $50 a week. And I still think its borderline whether it would make sense to get a car.

 

[escavader]

All you gotta do is get a farm plate and take the tractor to work with the manure spreader on behind,If they laugh or point their finger,simply hit that ENGAGE PTO lever,they might start pointing a different finger though. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
ALAN

 

[LBrown59]

When I was in high school back in the late fifties a friend of mine had a moped that I used to ride some.
Another 16 year old high pal school had a 174 or 184 model Harley Davidson motor cycle that I rode a few times.

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="blue"> 1*I think you'd be safer on the other bike.
2*I've given some thought to doing the same thing, except I'd have to pony up the bucks for a bike, I sold mine to buy a tractor.
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</font> 1*I agree
I have a policy of never do what others want me to do when I know that they're wrong.Goes for both inlaws and outlaws too.
2*My brother in law has a real nice 1978 Honda 350 he has had for years and years.Looks almost like new.