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Unread 04-09-2010, 18:08   #19
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Originally Posted by ACustomer View Post
corktina: You can't ignore maintenence and depreciation costs when assessing car versus train. Measuring the "cost" as just the fuel cost (as did the Sunday Times last week) is just wrong. Car servicing and tyre wear are pretty directly related to mileage, and don't tell me that when you come to trade in your car that the price you get will be the same isrrespective of whether it has 30,000 or 60,000 on the clock.

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and yet the poster im quoting is doing exactly this by not including these items in calculations where he is driving to the station.
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