Actually Nixon was president. But my oldest parachute dates back to Eisenhower. :) patrick On 09 Mar 2011, at 19:05, sfisher01@comcast.net wrote:
Yes, and when he bought his Mercedes, Truman was in office.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "daniel turner" <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:03:34 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Will the cost of gas change your dark site visits or your attendance at outreach events?
You need to put the cost of fuel into perspective.
When the gas prices spiced back in 2008 I took the price I paid for the vehicle and subtracted the current resale price and divided by the miles driven so far and came up with a cost of about 20 cents a mile.
I had paid cash so there was no interest, but I didn't consider tax, registration and mantenance costs, just the depreciation.
Currently gas is costing me about 20 cents a mile so the price of fuel is less than half the total cost of ownership.
Next time I will buy a used car to cut down on the depreciation cost. That's where the big cost is in owning a vehicle.
Or you could do like Patrick does. His truck was bought new when Reagan was still president. His depreciation cost per mile should be realy low.
DT