[Sylvanfan]

My 2002 Mustang GT Convertible is currently costing about $160 a month. 120 for insurance, and $40 for gas. Although it's getting to a point where it will just go down to storage insurance which I think is still like $40 per month and get parked until April. Since I work from home I don't really need a vehichle so thats a nice perk.

The 2006 Rav4 (which is really my wife's) payment is $520 a month 48 month loan, insurance is about $100 and we spend about $160 on fuel for it a month. So total cost would be about $880. For the two vehichles it's costing us over $1000 a month which is more than the mortgage on the house I bought in 2002.

To buy a monthly commuter bus pass that is honored in Edmonton and St.Albert and gets you unlimited transit rides costs $72 a month. Than factor in that my wife has to pay $4 a day to park where she works and taking public transit would be much, much cheaper. But she will never ever do the public transit thing. I used transit last winter and didn't mind it. Driving in Edmonton is frustrating as hell with the way the morons drive here. There were a couple days that the bus was like an hour off, but than again that was because of traffic/wheather conditions and driving would have been just as bad. You certainly do lose out on convenience and I wouldn't want to ride the bus year round. But for a few months in the winter I didn't mind it.