now that I don't have a car anymore... or for the time being, I guess now is the time to get off my fat ass and ride my bike everywhere.
so I was figuring, if I spend $80-100 a month in gas, and then $450 every 6 months for car insurance, then $15 every 6 months for an emissions test, $80 a year for a parking pass, etc...

If I don't have a car for a year, I would save between $1970-$2210 a year. THAT IS INSANE. Thats pretty much a semester of college right there. That is... just so much money I could save by not having a car.

but then... then winter hits. and I don't live close enough to downtown or the campus to really walk ro ride my bike to school in the snow. and the public transit system in Boise is awful. There are articles published in the paper about it all the time. No one in Boise wants to take a bus or carpool. They stopped the routes up to my house simply because there were not enough people. A bus blew up a few months ago too, which is something I wouldn't want to possibly happen to me next time I am on that thing. The buses are old and they over-heat all the fucking time. No wonder no one wants to take the bus.

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