My 9-mile, one-way commute to work today cost me about 90 cents in fuel costs alone.[1]
I paid 16 cents for a Central/South American banana at the supermarket this morning.
So it costs 6 times as much to transport me 9 miles – mostly downhill – than it costs to grow, pick, pack and ship a banana from South America to Syracuse.
[Editorial addition: At my weight (175 lbs), and assuming that the 1/3 of a pound banana traveled here from Ecuador (about 3000 miles) the dollars per pound per mile is about 3.5X higher for my one-way commute than for the banana's.]
- Using 27MPG as my average fuel efficiency and my last fill-up price of $2.70 a gallon [back]
