> About $4 a gallon for gas now. > > Drive a Jeep that gets 15 miles to the gallon (I live out in BFE and need four-wheel > drive on any rainy/snowy day or I'm trapped in). > > The school is 15 miles away. > > He has to be to school earlier than the bus pick-up to train for the baseball team, > and stays after school for the same reason, so thats two round trips a day... 60 > miles... four gallons of gas... $16.00... every day.
These antiquated measurements confuse me...
OK, petrol here is about $1.50 a litre, which works out to $5.60 a gallon. 60 miles = 100km which is quite a lot of driving just to take a kid to school. No idea what a BFE is...
Raising a child is an expensive business, as you have no doubt discovered.
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