[mwint]

Where'd this $5000/car(/yr?) number come from? Total cost of ownership for a car is far less than that. You can only really get to $5k/year through very high depreciation, and people buying those kinds of cars won't be riding your busses anyway.

Also, $100/hr to run a bus is probably a fine operating cost number, but you do have to buy the bus (capitalized cost) and take the depreciation hit just like cars.

[_hcuq]

The total cost of ownership includes gasoline, repairs, insurance, road tax as well as depreciation. The $100 per hour includes the cost of buying the bus.

[Karrot_Kream]

Look at [1] and you see it's the average across the US. It's more expensive than that in many states. Unless you're discounting the purchase price/monthly loan payment/lease price.

[1]: https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/#data

[mwint]

Key word there is probably average. Median would be more interesting.

[Karrot_Kream]

New Mexico is sitting at the median (spot 25, so not quite, need to average out the two middles) at $5,063.78.

[mwint]

The median of a list of averages is not the median of the population.

[Gordonjcp]

I don't think I've paid (the equivalent of) $5000 for every car I've ever owned, in total.