Re: Re: Time to become a CRT'er? support Canal & River Trust
On 01/08/2012 08:05, Adrian Stott wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:58:14 +0100, Trevor
> <listsandstuff@...> wrote:
>
>> Whilst the 'rate' might fall, the hole in his budget grows with each
>> extra mile (and he would have to do a lot of additional miles to shift
>> the rate downwards by any meaningful amount)
> In fact, he had been so influenced by his misunderstanding of marginal
> cost that he was driving very little. He could easily have doubled
> the distance he drove per period, thus substantially reducing his
> average cost / km.
An interesting comment - but you have (once again) totally missed - or
ignored - my point :-/
Assuming, mainly from your earlier comments, that your gentleman
acquaintance has a limited budget for transport of (for example) £100
pcm, and that his 'fixed costs' have now risen to that same £100 pcm,
then doing even 20 miles would mean that he can purchase one less loaf
of bread each month for his family.
Doing double his usual distance - perhaps to half the private car's
average of 8000 miles per year, would cost him an extra £27.50 pcm (or
around 18 loaves of bread pcm).
Now, whilst you might happily celebrate the fact that his actions had
proved, very conclusively, that his overall cost per mile** had been
substantially reduced, my own sympathies lay closer to the brave
gentleman who had to cut his partner's shopping budget by £25.75 pcm,
whose eight children are now forced to go to bed without their bread and
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