How will rising gas prices affect the cost of transportation where you live?
The Center for Neighborhood Technology has launched a new tool on its Abogo® website that shows how rising gas prices could affect household transportation costs at a given location. Users can type in an address to see average transportation costs for a neighborhood and then select a gas price to calculate how it would affect transportation costs at that location. Auto-dependent locations see their transportation costs increase dramatically as prices move up along the slider, but transit-rich locations have more modest increases.
Abogo recently analyzed the exorbitant gas prices in the Chicago metro area and surrounding region. At a whopping $4.25 per gallon on average, Chicago’s fuel costs are the highest of any city in the nation right now.
Want to lower your transportation costs? Join I-GO Car Sharing! I-GO members spend roughly $2,520/year on average for transportation compared to car owners.
In fact, the Abogo folks feel so strongly that everyone reading this post should sign up for I-GO that they walked downstairs (I-GO is an affiliate of CNT) and asked for a special deal for you!
Enter promo code ABOGO on your application when you sign up with I-GO and you’ll pay just $25 (a savings of $50). Plus, we’ll throw in $10 in free driving to get you started off down the road to car-sharing nirvana.
Try it for a year, and renew your membership for just $25!
And remember to take transit when possible, and make sure your boss is enrolled in pre-tax transit benefits that can save you and your employer money. Check out Abogo’s additional resources on how to lower transportation costs.
