OK, so I went home and consulted my accountant. It turns out that the car-less commute cost me:<\/p>\n
for a grand total of $11.40 for the day. If aimee hadn’t come to pick me up in the evening at the subway station, it would have been $12.30 instead. So for the week, that’s over $60! Gas costs about a third of that right now (I only fill the tank every week and a half or so, and I only use it on the weekdays).<\/p>\n
So, economically, this car-less commute thing would be a pain in the butt. However, I did some maths: I can get a monthly subway pass<\/a> for $44 and a monthly bus pass<\/a> for $31 (or a monthly combo pass<\/a> for the same total). Thus, I would save $11 bucks off the daily fares per month. Now, if my employer<\/a> ever joins the business council, my shuttle fare would be $2 each way instead of $4, which would save me $20 a week. It would be slightly costlier than my car but not prohibitively so. Not that I’m pressuring anyone to do anything, I’m just saying, is all.<\/p>\n The thing I did find out, however, is that I get a tax deduction<\/a> for those passes if they are > $150 for the year. That’s actually fairly cool, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so I went home and consulted my accountant. It turns out that the car-less commute cost me: $2.50 in subway tokens $0.90 in bus fare $8.00 in shuttle fares for a grand total of $11.40 for the day. If aimee hadn’t come to pick me up in the evening at the subway station, it … Continue reading Car-less commute: Back in the Car<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}