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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
I hope gas prices stay low through the holidays. We don't own a car (living in a city with good public transit, you don't need one), but the cost of renting one to go visit my parents ain't cheap. It's so expensive to rent a car in Manhattan, that being willing to travel an hour by subway to a branch in one of the outer boroughs is saving me over $200 off a week rental. Yeesh. The rental is still almost $500. Sigh. So yeah, less expensive gas would be nice.
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If you drive 8 hours each way or 1,000 miles total in a rental that gets 30mpg highway, the savings reaped with gas being $2.50 as opposed to $3.50 is a total of $33.30 and may cover half the taxes charged on the rental.
Nice, but not all that nice.
