What will you do with an additional 50,000 rupees in a year?
What will you do with an additional 50,000 rupees in a year?
An international holiday, buy that LED TV you always wanted, the latest 13 mega pixel phone or a diamond ring for your better half. Or one of the other million wishes you have.
And add to that the satisfaction of reducing pollution and traffic, providing cleaner air for your kids, helping people and making a lot of new friends.
So here's some simple mathematics to get this all into perspective:
Avg home-office-home distance: 40 kms
Avg. per km cost of your car (when you drive alone): Rs. 6
Your annual fuel cost (22 days/month, 12 months):Β Rs. 63,360/-
Β If you takeΒ 1 passenger with you at FV, you get (per km): Rs.2.5/km
Just by this, your cost goes down byΒ 58.3%
You save Rs. 36,960 in a year.
Β If you takeΒ 2 passengersΒ with you at FV, you get (per km): Rs.5.5/km
Here, your cost goes down byΒ 83.33%
And you save Rs. 58,080/- in a year
Β And if you somehow manage to takeΒ 3 peopleΒ with you, you wonβt spend anything and youβll get Rs. 26,400 additionally.Β Thatβs a saving of Rs. 89,760 in a year.
Not just this. A car on an average produces 1.5 tonnes of CO2 in a year. An average tree takes appx. 65 years to sequester that much of CO2.
So, youβll reduce as much CO2 as 65 trees would in a year.
Β So, what will you do with an additional 50,000 rupees in a year?