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    “You're not rubbish daddy.”
    by Iona

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    Goodbye Gertie

    (doesn’t everyone name their cars!?)

    So today after 3 years and 57470 miles Gertie Golf goes back so:

    57470 miles / 32mpg (avg) = 1796 gallons of go juice
    1796 gallons = 8165 litres
    8195 x 115p litre (expensive fuel, rather than the norm) = 9424.25 UKP

    of which 6126 UKP went straight to the government in fuel tax

    Nice.

    Or how [...]

    Almost three years…

    …since we decamped from London to Bourne End (twined with the “Arse end of beyond”) and in that time of course I’ve had to commute, daily, just under 2 hours on average in the car:

    so:

    2 x 5 = 10 hours / week
    10 x 48 = 480 hours / year (taking into account the holiday I [...]