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Expected miles driven divided by the auto's expected mileage (city, highway, combo take the listed mileage per car in this fashion a normally aspirated car will typically get .85 or so of claimed mileage, turbo cars .80 or less) times expected gas prices per car.
Example:
1,000 miles per month, mfg/EPA claim car gets 20 mpg combined, gas say is $2.10 gallon.........
1,000 / (20 x .85 = 17) x 2.10
1,000 / 17 x 2.10 = $123.52 gas per month. Do that for both autos and you'll be very close.
What does this have to do with colleges and universities?
Maybe they're driving back and forth to college?? :-)
And not to be a jerk (okay I am) instead of college one may want to go back to grade school or Junior High if one doesn't know how to figure fuel costs ... JS
E.g. ($2.50 /gallon) / (20 miles / gallon) = $0.125 per mile
That is the basic equation between my Forester and the F-250....which produced a result that the latter is about 2.5X as expensive to operate.
Now, other things can be added in but essentially when it comes to this or that, that's it.
The nice thing about the above is that it can easily be done in one's head.
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