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by dragonwriter 3026 days ago
> This is substantially higher than the estimates in this newer study unless you think that the per hour operating costs of a car are $16 per hour.

Fuel costs per hour could easily be a quarter or so of that, and fuel costs seem to be around 1/7 of total operating costs [0], so, yeah, $16+/hr isn't unreasonably high.

[0] https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu...