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Originally Posted by ProDarwin
Except that even in traffic, you'll travel much farther in a car than on a bike in 30 minutes  My commute would be ~1 hour by bike, 20 minutes by car. |
1) depends on how far you have to go, and how bad traffic is. It isn't always a given that driving is faster
2) I was only trying to address the actual cost; one issue at a time
3) The same opportunity cost question applies to time as it does to extra calories: we need some form of exercise to stay healthy. If you drive to work, then you need to spend 30 mins running or at the gym some other time during the day - 50 minutes total. If you bike, in that hour you got both done at once, so instead of taking up an extra 40 minutes, it only took an extra 10.
If you are traveling about 15 miles each way, at 17 cents a mile, that $5.10 a day you save for that 10 minutes, the equivalent of $40 an hour (pre tax),
you know what they say, time is money. It works both ways.