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In article <1992Jun10.014330.10395@leland.Stanford.EDU>, gooch@leland.Stanford.EDU (Carl Gooch) writes:
|> Direct costs:
|>    Purchase price
|>    Fuel price (gas/diesel vs. additional food)
|>    Upkeep costs (tires/oil/tuneups/etc vs. tires/chains/etc)
|>    Insurance and registration (more of a car issue than a bike issue)
|>    Misc. costs (parking, tolls, traffic tickets, etc, for both sides; some
|>       bike clothing for many of us)
|> Indirect costs:
|>    Production:
|>       Depletion of resources (hard to put a value on this one, especially 
|>          since most of the mass of either can be recycled)
|>    Use:
|>       Emissions (exhaust gases/exhaust soot/worn-off tire rubber/bits of
|>          accident debris vs. small amounts of C02/tire rubber)  Most 
|>          importantly, how does one quantify the health and environmental
|>          effects of, for example, tons of sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon 
|>          oxides?
|>       Other waste (used oil/tires/batteries/coolant/etc vs used tires/
|>          chains/etc)  Again, a lot of this could probably be recycled.
|>       Waste and emissions produced in producing and transporting the
|>          vehicle, fuel, parts, etc.
|>       Health (accident safety vs. improved fitness)  Health effects from
|>          emissions are arbitrarily included with emissions.
|>       Time for transportation
|>       Perceived convenience (an extra shower, having to walk in from the
|>          parking lot at work, carrying people and stuff, etc)

I can't believe I left road maintainence off this list.  

|>    Disposal:
|>       Where do you put the carcasses, and does anyone melt them down for
|>          the metal?
|> 
|> I don't claim that this is a complete list, by any means.  

As I said, I don't claim...

Carl

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Carl Gooch                       |        Why am I inside at a keyboard when 
gooch@leland.stanford.edu        |        I could be outside riding bike?
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