Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The car internal costs are all the costs consumers pay to afford owning and running an automobile. This is an article for the private or the internal costs of the automobile, i.e. the costs users pay to own and run a car. Normally these private expenditures are divided by fixed or standing costs and variable or running costs. Fixed costs are those ones which do not depend on the distance travelled by the vehicle and which the owner must pay to keep the vehicle ready for use on the road, like insurance or road taxes. Variable or running costs are those which depend on the use of the car, like fuel or tolls.Compared to other popular modes of passenger transportation, especially buses or trains, the automobile has a relatively high cost per person-kilometre travelled.Motorists in the UK seem to spend on the car an average of roughly 1/3 of their average net income, while motorists in Portugal seem to spend 1/2 of their net income. This situation is reflected in most other Western nations. For the average car owner, depreciation constitutes about half the cost of running a car. The typical motorist underestimates this fixed cost by big margin, or even ignores it altogether, according to a survey by the RAC.. }
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- Car_costs abstract "The car internal costs are all the costs consumers pay to afford owning and running an automobile. This is an article for the private or the internal costs of the automobile, i.e. the costs users pay to own and run a car. Normally these private expenditures are divided by fixed or standing costs and variable or running costs. Fixed costs are those ones which do not depend on the distance travelled by the vehicle and which the owner must pay to keep the vehicle ready for use on the road, like insurance or road taxes. Variable or running costs are those which depend on the use of the car, like fuel or tolls.Compared to other popular modes of passenger transportation, especially buses or trains, the automobile has a relatively high cost per person-kilometre travelled.Motorists in the UK seem to spend on the car an average of roughly 1/3 of their average net income, while motorists in Portugal seem to spend 1/2 of their net income. This situation is reflected in most other Western nations. For the average car owner, depreciation constitutes about half the cost of running a car. The typical motorist underestimates this fixed cost by big margin, or even ignores it altogether, according to a survey by the RAC.".