Friday, December 27, 2013

WAVE-B Free Ride Project 2013 Report




This is the first progress report of the "WAVE-B Free Ride Project".  When we begun this experiment we had the following cars:

  • Car A: Ramsey Rover - 2000 Ford Windstar Mini-Van with around 208,000 miles

  • Car B: Green Machine - 1998 Jeep Cherokee with 230,000 miles

  • Savings assigned to car: $4000

Transportation: Fuel Costs



http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adler_Diplomat

1941 Adler Diplomat - Gasifier

Driving a car is expensive. What if you didn't own a car? (This question is of course directed at you who in fact do own one.) If you didn't own a car you would have to live relatively close to your work. Alternatives might be walking, biking, public transportation, van pools, or finding a job that involves teleworking.

If you are in fact one of those who does own a car and can not do the above suggestions you can do other things to make driving your car less expensive. Fuel costs are a major factor in my daily commute; I drive 66 miles round trip for work. I know other people who go as far as 88 miles daily for work.