Re: Another Gollum classic

On 18 Jul, 11:49, Roger Thorpe <myinitial.mysrn...@warwick.ac.uk>
wrote:
> BrianW wrote:
> >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.transport/msg/366fb5da74e627ea?hl=
en
>
> > Gollum, once again, shoots himself in the foot by destroying his own
> > argument.  He says "... if you cost your car use honestly, including
> > those charges when the car is standing idle and for repairs", and
> > avoid "Cherry picking individual journeys here and there", the
average
> > annual running cost "is typically 5000 quid per car".
>
> > He then posts a link to an AA site which shows that the average
> > running cost, for a car with average mileage is ...  just over £2,0
00.
>
> > How does he do it?
>
> How did you get that from the AA page?
> If you take the median from that list (I don't know what the average car
> and average mileage are) then you get:
> total standing charge and "running cost" per mile at 20,000 miles per
> year =44.43 pence per mile  = £8,886 per year.
> lower bound cheapest car lowest mileage
> total standing charge and "running cost" per mile at 20,000 miles per
> year =60.43 pence per mile  = £3,2021 per year.
>
> It confuses matters (I think) that the AA here calls the mileage cost
> "running costs" and that the costs Doug refers to are the total
> costs.
> Are you using a different definition of "running costs" ? or have I
> missed something?
>
> Roger Thorpe

My car cost about £6000 three years ago, I expect to keep it untill it
is at least ten years old.
I do under 5000 miles a year, so that will blow those figures out of
the water.


Francis
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