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Car Ownership Cost Calculator

2:12 PM EDT on June 29, 2006

The Volvo has stolen $214,177.23 from our son's college education. 

Calculate how many grande latte's you could be buying with the money you spent on that last muffler job:

"The Real Costs of Car Ownership." 

Aaron Naparstek
@naparstek.bsky.social

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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