http://benjaminbryan.disqus.com/Personal WebsiteenSat, 12 Jun 2010 01:05:48 -0000http://b3n.org/articles/2007-mazda3-costs#comment-56341442<p>Certainly. All the data is tracked automatically in Quicken. The only thing I have to do is tag which vehicle each transaction is for and Quicken guesses correctly most of the time. It just takes a few minutes to run a report.</p><p>Knowing the cost of operating a vehicle helps you make decisions. For example, I decided to buy plane tickets for Kris and I for $350 for instead of driving 800 miles because it's about the same price as driving (our most economical car is $0.43/mile). That saved Kris and I about 4 hours (8 hours combined) travel time...which was a lot more than I spent on getting this data.</p>BenSat, 12 Jun 2010 01:05:48 -0000