Getting to Vegas

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[Poll #1089599]

   If I take my carmovehicle, I can leave for Vegas and from Vegas whenever I happen to feel like it. I believe parking at our hotel is free (I'll check on that in the morning). Also packing is easier because I can put whatever I feel like in my trunk.
   If I take Greyhound I have to find parking in Anaheim or Santa Ana (the closest stations) and hope its free or not too expensive, bus apparently takes 7 hours to traverse the 272 miles that google says should take my car 4 hours; and then it deposits me five miles from my hotel and I gotta taxi it up I guess.
   Bus fare is $85 "standard" fare or $56 "casino" fare (I can't for the life of me figure out what makes casino fare casino fare). I think driving might actually be more expensive in gas.

   Actually I think writing out the pros and cons has convinced me of which route to go, but heck, I've already written this, may as well post. (=

   Anyway, I loathe Vegas with a passion, but its the AMWEST Model UN conference there this weekend and I'm going with team Northern Arizona University (NAU) and its gonna be awesome! (=



   In unrelated news, I think every girl I've talked to in my French class is taking dance classes. A.Wall, Devon, girl that sits in front of me, avant-gard-fashion-girl, and most unexpectly this punkish girl Ashleigh who's hardly ever there and I pointed out to her all the other girls were dancers thinking she'd think it was weird too but she was like "yeah so do I."
   Silly JC kids, still trying to live the dream.

Comments

[spencerfern.livejournal.com]

Most of the costs he mentions (registration, insurance, and some part of depreciation) are fixed whether you drive the car or not. I think that might also include finance charges, which you may not have.

The actual operation costs are more like $0.15/mile. They usually figure maintenance is about %50 of gas costs. Obviously this is much less if you maintain the car yourself, and much more if you insist on having your Hummer serviced at the dealership.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

That makes more sense. I find it extremely hard to believe the non-fuel costs of driving are more than three times the fuel costs. d= (But I'll look into it further Tobin)

[nibot.livejournal.com]

You would believe them if you were actually paying them. The marginal cost of driving someone else's car is very low.

[spencerfern.livejournal.com]

Also, you need to figure in the cost of carbon offsets.

If you don't buy those, Al Gore will get in his motorcade, drive to the airport in Nashville, fly his Gulfstream to McCarran, charter a helicopter, and while your taking a leak at a gas station in Baker, he will land outside.

When you come outside he will give you a stern talking to about your callous abuse of our environment.