250 work days in a year = 125 fill-ups * $80 - $10,000 a year.
Why would you live where you need to commute and spend $80 every two days on gas at any rate? Even at just 15 mpg, that would be at least 60 miles each way. And if you do have to drive that far, why use a truck. Add vehicle maintenance and depreciation, car insurance, etc that job is costing her probably $20k-25k/yr - post tax, or $25-$35k/yr pre-tax income.
$10,000 / year
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Well, she should walk or use a bike!
The government will surely get a bus line to her house too!
That’s the official woke solution to her problem.
Please, fight it before is too late!
My wife (retired) and I (quasi-retired, working from home a lot) drive our main car 26K miles per year. At our current local gas prices ($3.259 per gallon, this is in Alabama, not Washington state), and if we still drove mainly old used ICE cars getting 15 mpg, that'd be $5,648 per year. If we instead bought a new (or newer) car getting 30 mpg (think crossovers, not small cars) it'd be $2,824 per year.
My point is, the cost of gas impacts retirees who like to get out a lot. Especially us tall retirees (read: don't want a small car to squat a lot to get down into like a clown car, so we get crossovers or pickups, which means lower mpg).
Which is why when my wife's old used crossover was needing too many repairs a year ago and it was time to replace it, I replaced it with a new EV crossover. That's not a good fit for everybody. But with us driving 26K miles per year, and in the warm Alabama climate (read: not too cold for EV's around here or anywhere close enough for us to drive to instead of fly), the EV works fine for us.
I'd rather win the political battle against the Dims' stupid war on energy. However, I have my doubts if we can beat the vote fraud and put in someone like Trump again. And even if so, for how long? Thus, thinking long term I thought it was best for my wife and I if we cut our energy costs without reducing our lifestyle. That seems to work for us.
If we were under trump presidency right now, the cost of 125 fillups would be only around roughly $4000 or so- depending on where one lives.
Ain’t bidenomics grande? We get to spend twice as much for the same amount, and he gets to lie and say his financial agenda is working marvelously