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Shirley Read’s new ride to work is enormous — it can hold 120 gallons of fuel and gets just 5 miles to the gallon.
It would cost $400 to fill up.
Yet it’s still cheaper — much cheaper — for Read to ride that behemoth more than 30 miles from her north Paso Robles home, through Templeton, Atascadero and Santa Margarita and up over the Cuesta Grade to San Luis Obispo every day than it is to drive her own car.
That costs her up to $10 per day, even at nearly 25 mpg.
Her monthly pass to ride a Central Coast Area Transit bus as much as she wants is $30.
Like others around the county, Read looked to alternative transportation when gas prices zoomed past $3 a gallon.
"I wouldn’t have considered it if prices weren’t as high as they were for gas," Read ...
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