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Strange Comparisons

November 24, 2008

Cost of Running Shoes: $80
Miles you get outa’ them: 400
Price per mile: 20 cents

Cost of a Gallon of Gas: $2
Miles you get outa’ it: 20
Price per mile: 10 cents

There are all sorts of things wrong with this comparison. But, in all it’s simplicity, it made me want to run even more.

Cost of swim suit: $0 if Trakkers loves you.
Miles you get outa’ it: 300 before it falls apart.
Price per mile: 0, but you can’t swim to the store.

Can you come up with any more???

6 Comments »

  1. Hillary says:

    Don’t let Ben see this post. I don’t even want to know what he will come up with…

    November 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  2. Laura J says:

    Cost of Chariot: $600
    Miles: 5000 (?) these things appear to last forever
    Price per mile: 12 cents
    I’d still rather ride to the store!

    November 25th, 2008 at 9:41 am

  3. Gaye says:

    Ah, but see it’s a flawed comparison! If you’re truly going to compare apples to apples, you have to add in the price of the car along with the price of gas! Of course, if you want to, you can ALWAYS rationalize things the way you want them to turn out. ;-)

    November 25th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  4. Ben says:

    lol – at Hillary’s request, I won’t geek out too much…

    I’ll just add this:
    IRS figure per mileage to include depreciation on vehicle, tire wear, other wear and tear – $0.58/mile

    nice tires for bike – $100
    mileage to wear out – ~1600 miles
    $0.06 per mile.

    November 26th, 2008 at 7:18 am

  5. Dad says:

    Steve Kaylor said you need to include all of the equipment cost in your car analysis

    November 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am

  6. Sonja says:

    As I mentioned….”there are all sorts of things wrong with this comparison”.

    HaHaHa. I also needed to include all the goos I would go through if I ran everywhere.

    November 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

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