{"id":303,"date":"2008-05-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2008\/05\/28\/driving-vs-walking-to-work\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:48:58","slug":"driving-vs-walking-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/driving-vs-walking-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving vs. Walking to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just did the math. According to this, its more economical for me to drive to work than it is to walk.<\/p>\n<p>Driving:<br \/>\n0.5 miles x 5 days = 2.5 miles\/week \u00f7 20 mpg = 0.125 gal\/week x $4.00 \/gal = $0.50\/week x 2 trips (morning &amp; evening) = <b>$1.00\/week<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Walking:<br \/>\n<s>http:\/\/www.csrees.usda.gov\/newsroom\/impact\/2008\/nri\/03191_food_prices.html<\/s><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.foodreference.com\/html\/a-low-calorie-cost-1208.html<br \/>\n<i>Based on a standard <b>2000-calorie<\/b> diet, the researchers found a diet consisting primarily of calorie-dense foods costs $3.52 a day, but a diet consisting primarily of low-calorie food costs $36.32 a day. The average American eats a variety of foods throughout the day, spending <b>$7<\/b> a day. -March 19, 2008<\/i> [Bold values used below]<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.fitwatch.com\/phpscripts\/viewexercise.php?descr=walking,%20general&#038;mets=4.0<br \/>\n0.5 miles = 10 minute walk = 44 calories<br \/>\n2000 cal \u00f7 $7.00 = $0.0035 \/cal<\/p>\n<p>44 cal x 5 days = 220 cals\/week \u00f7 $0.0035 = $0.77 \/week x 2 trips (morning &amp; evening) = <b>$1.54\/week<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If I had a hybrid vehicle that got, say 40 or 50 mpg, then there&#8217;d be no contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did the math. According to this, its more economical for me to drive to work than it is to walk. Driving: 0.5 miles x 5 days = 2.5 miles\/week \u00f7 20 mpg = 0.125 gal\/week x $4.00 \/gal = $0.50\/week x 2 trips (morning &amp; evening) = $1.00\/week Walking: http:\/\/www.csrees.usda.gov\/newsroom\/impact\/2008\/nri\/03191_food_prices.html http:\/\/www.foodreference.com\/html\/a-low-calorie-cost-1208.html Based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moods","category-opinions","category-techy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}