Fuel prices are rising and putting increasing strain on the money in our pockets. If you commute twenty miles a day to and from work, you will spend £643.00 a year just to get to work. Add to this the cost of insurance, tax, MOT, Tyres and servicing. And you are spending about £1160.00 a year on an average car just to get to work. That's £96.00 a month out of your hard gotten wage. 19 packets of cigarettes, 48 pints of beer or 1 to 2 weeks food.
So what can we do to reduce the cost of getting to work and still maintain the convenience of our own transport? We can look at how the problem is solved in other places in the world, for example a litre of fuel as a proportion of the average wage is a days wages in southern India. Its hardly surprising that people don’t have cars to get about on. They use small motorbikes and scooters. Very few of them are over 125 cc. These bikes give in the region of 100 MPG or if you prefer 5 litres to a 100 miles. This makes a big difference to the cost of transport.
If you were to use a small motorcycle for the summer months, instead of your car how much could expect to save. Fuel costs for 6 months would be £140.00. A saving of £182.00 on the dear old car. Road tax will cost £15.00 for a year and insurance will vary greatly but for experienced drivers shouldn't exceed £100.00. The graph below shows the difference between a bike and a car for each months use.
