I'm wondering how much people spend a month now on petrol Let's say you work in cape town but stay in the northern or southern suburbs, how much are you spending?
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I'm sorry what?? That's rent money.
I feel your pain. I have half that but do it twice a day. Worth the view but the time is getting to me. 1.5 hours most days wasted.
Yeah, nah. You could not pay me to do this, not even for a short while. Even if you offered me R50k/month extra, the answer would still be no.
This is no way to live, friend.
Damn...which car do you drive and how many litres is it?
130k daily and partner doing almost the same. Over R9k per month
Live in Durbanville, work in Table View. Petrol is about 3k pm. ðŸ˜
I have a home office in Southern Suburbs and only travel for client meetings, luckily this means only a tank every 2/3 months at R750. My husband travels to the CBD every day in a Daihatsu Terios and spend R2800 a month.
Durbanville to Sea Point R7000.00
Hectic.
What do you drive?
A tank apparently, as he should be doing around 1400km per month. At the quoted 7k spent, his vehicle is costing him around R5 per km. For reference a vehicle getting 6L per 100km should be costing R1.5 per km at R24 per liter
Blouberg to Century City around 2k-2.5k but most petrol gets pissed away in traffic.
That's where an electric car would be great.
About the same. Same route there and back and same costs roughly. It sucks.
It shouldn't cost that much for a relatively short distance. But traffic getting in & out of Blouberg/Table View can be a nightmare.
Work in cbd, live in cbd. R0 p/m - I walk.
Thank you Einstein.
Same here!
Rent?
R10500 Studio apartment. No load shedding - The South African dream.
Not too shabby still a little pricy, at least your carbon footprint is small so good on you.
You will find this hard to believe... I promise I'm not making this up - as far as Town prices go, this is a steal. Forgot to mention it's furnished. Rent prices here are ABSURD.
What about safety in the CBD? Do you feel safe walking around all the time?
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I'm a dude that works out a lot, and you can tell looking at me. Not some kind of gym muscle beast or anything, but you get the idea. I have ZERO delusions of bad-assery, but I walk tall with confidence. That's my context, and in that context I feel completely safe. I walk to yoga every morning before the sun and city wakes up, and very occasionally along Long street late at night over the weekend. Never once have felt in danger - though you do get offered a lot of drugs on the latter. If you are a woman walking alone though, this behaviour would be ill-advised. Some people might be inclined to call that male privilege, and in this instance I would struggle to disagree. Daytime is pretty safe for anyone.
I have no idea. I just fill up 😅
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Round about the same for me R2800 if I nurse the car
Petrol is give or take R2500 a month based on if we do trips. Work from home though and only really drive to shops or to take kids to school. car is thirsty
+-R4500 pm, Work is covering this cost since last month.
I stay in Goodwood and travel to Bellville south every day plus areas like Mitchells plain, eerste river, ect once or twice a weekend. That's 43km (give or take) daily. I spend R2000 so far with a 1.3i car. It depends on my weekend shifts. I do however do lift club that helps me cover a fair bit
I spend about R4-5k from Durbanville to Century City, but that includes driving around for fun over weekends
What route do you take? My wife does daily to Epping and spends 40-50 mins each way.
Wellington to somerset, 124km a day, drive a diesel, R3500/month
80kms a day, around 2.8k-3k per month
Minimum R4000 a month. Small car but long commute.
Southern suburbs to Somerset West, 4.5-5k per month
About R900. 8km per day give or take. But I do work from home, so this is all to walk my dog pretty much.
A tank a week and an extra one.
About R2500 per month. I live 10km away from work (Southern suburbs)
Work and back = 10km x 2 = 20km per day
20km x 5 = 100km per week or 400km per month
My car consumes 12 litres of petrol per 100km
The petrol price is R25 per litre
So 12L x R25 = R300 per week or R1200 per month.
I average about 50km per day on weekends (i.e Canal walk and back), so could easily do another 100kms over a Saturday and Sunday. This would be another 400km traveled over weekends, which amounts to another R1200 per month.
4-6k, mostly recreational travel as I WFH. Driving a V6 doesn’t help
Snap! V6 and a 180L tank definitely doesn't help. But I work from home so will barely use a tank a month.
Woah. 180L tank? What do you drive? I fill my 55L tank 3-4 times a month
My guess is a prado or fortuner, they used to come in a 3.6L V6 with a 180L tank
Makes sense. I’m still in awe of that tank capacity although I would cry filling it up
Me too, and being a petrol it’s super thirsty
Correct, it's a 4L Prado 120 with two 90L tanks. I get about 1200km out of it. Not great.
I miss our prado, lovely car
To see the full vehicle-related cost (nevermind the insane time cost) of all this crazy physical moving around for the sake of work, use the AA rate calculator: https://aa.co.za/vehicle-rates-calculator/
Most people have no idea just how expensive it is to travel because they fall prey to a variation on the sunk cost fallacy.
When you start thinking about the fact that the real cost of travel is R11.11 for every single kilometer (this is my vehicle’s rate as an example), you reconsider many things…
Constantly crash my car and it's continously in for repairs, but dam those ubers get expensive!
Pro tip, never ride with me
1 tank a month (work and leisure). R1300
Table View to Athlone, I fill up around every ten days. Between R2.5-3k a month total
Not CPT, but JHB. 140km round trip every day. Fuel is between R5000 and R6000 a month depending on traffic and if I go see clients.
I can remember filling my first car for 5 rand my latest on in town is a beast in town I get about 500km open road round about 1100km but I no longer commute work from home
We spend about R200 a week on petrol. 🙈
Stay in Bellville, work in town, take the bus which is R990 a month.
Petrol for whatever I do inbetween is about R700. We live by a school and a shop so I tend to drive very little.
I'm around R1800 a week and I fill my wife's car twice a month so another R2600 so R9600 a month. My bakkie is my office though.
About 1300/1500 a month from ottery to montague gardens in a 2.0 turbo
Spend about R3.5k total for work and leisure per month. From de Grendel to V&A weekdays and this includes a century city drop off and pick-up.
Work from home - R0 pm
So if we add all of this up and calculate the amount that goes to the government what figure do we get?
For work : R0. For leisure and shopping probably 3k. We do take at least 1 weekend away trip each month so that’s usually a tank.
40km during the week and 80km over weekends. I spend about R2400 pm. I drive a Honda so small car for the win lol
Its crazy how much the fuel price has gone up , I remember when I drove my first car , a Beetle and the petrol price was going up to around R2.31 a litre ,was about 1996 , now that was 28 years ago ,so in that time a litre of petrol costs over 10x more at around R25 a litre , now if that trend continues , in the next 28 years it will cost R250 a litre , I really don't think that is sustainable , driving your own car will return to only being affordable by the very wealth.
Even whenever electric vehicles become mass produced and affordable to be purchased by the average consumer ,I doubt that would be cheaper at the rate the price of electricity keeps increasing.
Unless something dramatically changes I see the future with those small Baja cars , scooters and electric bicycles and normal bicycles replacing cars due to affordability issues , I know I may be looking at worst case senario.
People will have to stay at work and only come home on the weekend or their off days.
Just a thought.
I work 3 kms from home- I have an electric skateboard, my commute is extremely fun
Yeah damn petrol is expensive , I’ve stopped calculating.
Diesel, Century City to Town, 4k a month. Traffic in the morning is next level if i leave too late (after 6:30)
5k pm. Full mix of 0, 40, 100 and +200km commutes, car says 7.7L/100km, 75% cruise control. A250 AMG(not 4matic)
R1500, 1 tank a month. WFH. So this is all knocking about on the weekends.
Wife does 2 tanks a month as she commutes, R1500 covers 2 tanks in her car.
Woodstock to Sea Point. R1300 per month
Started a new job so im going to have to fill up for the second time this month. I never drove to work because i worked in the city but now i work in tygervalley so my fuel consumption has basically doubled. About 1.6-2k a month
Well Driving from Goodwood to Killarney Gardens, note I do a lift club with some colleagues which takes me through Bishop Lavis, so around 30km per trip. Currently spending around R2k per month on fuel excluding any leisure trips during the month.
Roundabout 3k from cbd to Athlone. Most of my petrol gets evaporated sitting in the afternoon/evening traffic. The mornings are fine because I leave early enough to avoid the traffic. I drive a starlet xr 1.5 2023, monthly payments is about 6.2k.
20K a month .Porsche eats up a lot . And I drive it a lot .
Ouch
Plus another car . Why ouch ?! You live only once . I ain't taking it to the grave .
The hippy in me is a big fan of electric cars. That are charged via solar. I do understand the fun of a nice vehicle.
It's like having sex with a deaf girl .
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Too much.
Yamaha 50cc= Push to station, ran out of petrol- Fill up R0.75 in 70's
8K. 150km daily commute.