are just the equivalent of 9.35 times around the earth by Ecuador. Surely any executive / registered traveler programs-miles has already obtained and collected this amount of miles (converted to miles: 229.956) more than once. Assuming that each kilometer consume a tenth of a liter of gasoline, are just 37.000 liters of gasoline. If we consider that the gas tank of a VW Sedan contains exactly 10 gallons (37.85 liters), equivalent to 977.54 full tanks. That is, assuming the same yield of miles per gallon, these 370 thousand miles is not even a thousand tanks full, then the number of liters should be enough to 378500 kms.
To cover the amount of 3 million 700 thousand hundred yards to my shopping VW Sedan 1977 model and I, it has taken just 32 years, 8 months and 23 days. The current cost of $ 8 pesos per liter of gasoline, this means that only fuel consumption, this has meant an expenditure of $ 296.000 pesos, under the assumption of 10 kms traveled per gallon of gasoline consumed. Suppose
I have always been punctual and I have changed the 3 liters of oil that corresponds to change the engine every 3mil miles. This would be very easy on the mathematics of the German engineers who followed in the footsteps of Don Ferdinand Porsche and his original design in the thirties, to a quart per thousand miles driven. Ie, 370 liters of oil consumed in less than 33 years. Change, to celebrate such a closed figure (which looks at the phone number of a company that really exists in my hometown Guadalajara), another 3 liters of oil and the age of 33, reminiscent of ice cream flavors Laguense me an ice cream shop childhood, but also the degree of Masonry, we will have consumed 373 liters of oil, current price of $ 14 pesos per liter. Ie: $ 5.222 pesos.
After considering that spending on basic fluids for a VW sedan can be added to the aggregate amount of $ 301, 522 pesos, the amount in pesos which cost the car in 1977 ($ 83.700), plus some other "details" as the two glass broken in its history ($ 30 and $ 60 pesos in their time - I do not know the actual price will have a fin and a front window) as well as rubbers different, fenders, covers the trunk and engine, batteries, lights, running boards, successive stereo and speakers, a set of seats and 4 games Tire (4-change tires every 80.000 km), a pearl gray repainted and completely painted in silver, in addition to many services tuning, balancing, alignment, brake adjustments. At $ 385.222 let us add an estimated $ 114.778 pesos in multiple services and goodies. They are "only" half a million pesos. Let's add 10 years of tax for the use and possession of automobiles ($ 300 pesos each year, with more paid between 1977 and 1986) and other taxes, for endorsement of plates and those weights which contributed to the treasury to spend a high of traffic light, take a walk forbidden, exceed speed limits or station where I felt like it: say, do other $ 100.000 pesos?
"I can say that, almost 33 years later - I have a vehicle equivalent to $ 600,000 pesos which cost me transport myself to and fro in my town Guadalajara and between San Francisco, California, Mexico City and Xalapa, Veracruz (the farthest reaches of geography that has been touring the poblano product purchased in the seventies)? If a picture that initially cost a little over 80 thousand dollars ends up costing so much ($ 600 thousand) in a few kilometers, which do not even reach the ten laps of the planet, is it worth buying one for the same price in current dollars?
Apart from the obvious differences of a VW sedan (a model that was used both on the road in the seventies and eighties and part of the nineties) compared to vehicles equipped and suitable for travel by wagon roads that do not circulate and very few wagons and VW sedan, what are the advantages in security and services in urban transport? Is it worth "investing" in a road vehicle to be used primarily in the city? Would not it be wiser to "invest" in public transport? How many trips can be done with that $ 600 000 pesos in my town from Guadalajara? Assuming the current price of $ 6 pesos per trip, the thing is easily calculated (it is even easier than the mathematics of German engineers put a gas tank of 10 gallons n the sedan). 600,000 / 6 = 100,000 trips ...
Stated another way: why, whom we move into our cities, we chose to spend our money on buying a private car rather than push to improve public transport? How many users of private vehicles, over 10, 20, 30 or 35 years we have wasted - by politicians who represent us to spend the taxes - our money, local councils and taxpayers our time and the air we breathe, to push for wider streets in the fit more and more fast cars, in which there are fewer trees and where there are so many fatalities from collisions between the vehicles and between and pedestrians who dare to approach the roads and not so much?
Why are we encouraging the confrontation between blade against skin and is not sufficiently promote the use of alternative methods for average distances in urban transport? What about our regional transportation system, instead of having trains between relatively close cities (eg Tepatitlán Guadalajara, hence San Juan de los Lagos and Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Leon, Queretaro and then to the national capital) still resort to expensive highway system "share" in which all cooperate to bottle or accident and pay to use a surface with our own vehicles for those who already pay many other costs?
How surfaces occupying the streets (ever larger, and peripheral Gomez Morin relatively quickly or routes of Lazaro Cardenas and Lopez Mateos in Guadalajara) and roads, more and more lethal, we are consuming space cohabitation, amenity, recreation and even work? What is the logic of change vehicles every few years or to repay kilometers, from the beginning, many costs and the desire to retain the manufacturer's warranty and contribute to additional taxes on basic costs of maintaining a vehicle working? What keeps apart from official policies to promote the purchase and sale of new cars all of which are foreign brands, which users of the cities we are also public transport users and supplemented with transfers cycling and walking? Are we what prevents our belief that the most powerful vehicle, more shiny, more equipped, more powerful will also make our egos and our personal qualities most attractive? Do not use public transport and alternative means because we hate sweating and prefer to spend our time and money to repair the damage we cause more global warming and generating more heat in our village? Seen that the people of our country do not care and become obese, largely for not doing an activity as simple as walking, would have to find a way to solve the mystery of how to overcome the travails of glamorous and find solutions are attractive (and even sound "sexy") to burn less fossil fuels and cycle and walk more ...
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