On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:14:30 +0000, Mark wrote:

Agreed. But I do wonder why people are prepared to drive a 70+ mile
round trip just to get free parking?

Because they don't consider the cost of the car journey. If they actually
worked out how much that 70 mile round trip really cost they'd make a
shorter trip and pay the car park charge.

40p/mile is on the low side of the real cost of running a car, so that
trip really costs £28.00. £8.00 of which is the 2 gallons of fuel. Ball
park figures, with average cars, not nasty little tiny tin boxes doing 70
to the gallon.

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Cheers
Dave.