Doing some math By Smorkle (Read 559 times)

[Smorkle]

I was doing some math concerning my scooter and whither or not it was saving me any substantial money driving it to work. Noting that my Silverwing gets 55MPG on average and my truck gets 18MPG I can extrapolate from there.

Figuring gas at $3 a gallon my truck uses 16.667¢ per mile.
My scooter uses 5.4545¢ per mile.

Each trip to work is approximately 9 miles one way, so 18 miles round trip.

Truck costs $3 per trip
Scooter costs 98.1818¢ per trip. Less than a third.

When I drive the truck I have to pay $3 per day parking.
When I ride the scooter I get free parking. Instant $3 savings per day.

Truck costs $6 per day
Scooter costs 98.1818¢ per day.

Maintenance costs are close enough to the same to call it a wash.

Truck total is $30 per week or $120 a month or $1560 Annually.
Scooter is $4.90 per week or $24.50 a month or $254.80 annually.

This is a grand total savings of $1305.20 annually assuming $3 per gallon gas. Now, in reality there are about 4 months of the year that I cant ride because of snow and ice and freezing temperatures. Also there are times I can't get away from driving my truck because I need to carry tools and stuff. So let's divide that by 2. That's a real savings of $652.60! That's nothing to sneeze at.

So, let the idiots laugh at me. I'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Bashan]

My Fashion gets about 70 MPG and my truck gets 20 so I come out a little better. I figure it a little differently, if I ride pretty hard this year doing my 80 mile round trip to work the Fashion will have bought itself and a little more. After that it's a free vehicle and it's just gas. Rich

[nulldevice]

My cars get 25-30 MPG and my scooter gets 60-90 MPG. If I want to run errands and fuel cost is an issue I use the car. Somehow the distance my scooter has to go is about 4-5 times farther than when I drive the car. To do the same thing on the scooter I wind up using more gas.