Ouch!

I just bought gas on my lunch break and paid $3.79 for low-octane gas! $3.79! My daily commute costs me about $4.50 in fuel costs alone. Add in $7 a day in insurance. (I am it figuring the same regardless of mileage so it's not all that accurate.) Plus maintenance which I am figuring at $1.13 a day, means my commute, right now, is running about $12.63. It takes me an average of 45 minutes each way to get home, totaling 90 minutes. If I am value my labor at $25.00/hour, there's another $37.50. Wow! My commute is costing me $50.

Last week was Bike to Work week. I mused about getting a bike and commuting on it 2 days a week. It would take me longer -- probably as much as 90 minutes each way. Hmmm. No fuel costs. No insurance costs. Minimal maintenance costs. Say I find a great deal on a good bike and between my bike and accessories I spend about $450. And I bike 2 days of the 50 weeks I work. And it takes me 3 hours a day to ride. It will cost me about $75 a day.

But I'd get a great ass.

I'll write more later, I'm gonna go look for a bike on Craigslist.