Community Car Sharing Growing
One way of cutting the costs of owning a car, and finding ways to walk, bike, carpool and use public transit, is to create ways of having a car when you really need a car.
Now there are two operations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area to do just that. The Pioneer Press has a story today.
Even with a sign-up fee and a monthly fee, it’s cheaper than owning a car. How much does that cost?
According to the AAA, it will cost $8,121 to own and operate a new passenger car driven 15,000 miles per year this year, or 54.1 cents a mile, in 2008. That’s up 1.9 cents per mile from $7,823 per year in 2007, and it’s all due to higher gas prices, the automobile club said.
