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One of my friends did a personal study on his costs at uni and found it was more cost effective to drive his car (this was in the early 2000's) than it was to ride his bike to uni everyday than buy the food required to fuel the 50km round trip.
Wbat food did he use for that math? Because I doubt it would have hold up if he only used rice/beans/noodles/etc. To fuel his bike ride.
He tracked his food costs and fuel costs for a few months, noted when he drove and when he cycled and then correlated total costs with transportation mode. I have no idea how he was sourcing his food or what he was eating.
Maybe try not living 50km away from the university you need to attend almost every day?
Round trip, so it was 25km. Sadly Peth Australia has one of the largest urban sprawls on the planet so 25km isn't an unreasonable commute here and when you are a young uni student sometimes it's more cost effective overall to live with your parents. This isn't a post in support of cars, it's more saying that fuel for bicycles is most certainly not free and to suggest it is is disingenuous. Arguably there may have been other things my friend could have done to reduce his food bill, but he was already pretty thrifty in general.
Hope he wasn't majoring in anything like math or biology.
Well he certainly wasn't majoring in wilful ignorance so that probably works in his favour.