worth 4 and a half thousand dollars to you? Assuming gas drops in price by half, is it worth 2250 dollars?
Y’know, that number bothered me so I decided to check. Are the annual gas expenses really $4,500?
Let’s see. An average American car drives somewhere around 12,000 miles per year. A contemporary sedan running on gas goes for around 30 miles per gallon (EPA combined numbers). This means that a car burns about 400 gallons of gas per year. I filled up yesterday for $3.15 per gallon, but let’s say the average current price is $3.25. 400 * $3.25 = $1,300 per year. This is the average annual gas expense.
And if you buy a small (still ICE) car, you can get gas mileage up to about 40 mpg, I think. For such a car the annual costs of gas would be below a thousand dollars.
Uhm.. That looks a heck of a lot like the reasoning I used, except I did something stupid with imperial/metric conversion, and then it didn’t trigger any “That must be a mistake” bells because gas in these parts is 2 dollars.. per liter. Why can’t you use metric like everyone else? ;)
Y’know, that number bothered me so I decided to check. Are the annual gas expenses really $4,500?
Let’s see. An average American car drives somewhere around 12,000 miles per year. A contemporary sedan running on gas goes for around 30 miles per gallon (EPA combined numbers). This means that a car burns about 400 gallons of gas per year. I filled up yesterday for $3.15 per gallon, but let’s say the average current price is $3.25. 400 * $3.25 = $1,300 per year. This is the average annual gas expense.
And if you buy a small (still ICE) car, you can get gas mileage up to about 40 mpg, I think. For such a car the annual costs of gas would be below a thousand dollars.
Where does your $4,500 number come from?
Uhm.. That looks a heck of a lot like the reasoning I used, except I did something stupid with imperial/metric conversion, and then it didn’t trigger any “That must be a mistake” bells because gas in these parts is 2 dollars.. per liter. Why can’t you use metric like everyone else? ;)
This is the case of your government being greedy, not of gasoline being intrinsically expensive :-P
The US is special—haven’t you heard of the American Exceptionalism doctrine? X-D