>>It costs me about 10 cents per mile to drive from Silver Spring
>>to Baltimore ...
>
>Are you sure? Are you just counting gas? My ~25mpg vehicle costs
>about $0.16/mile these days just in gas, not to mention maintenance,
>taxes and insurance, "depreciation" (I'll have to replace it
>someday), other consumables (tires, whatnot). The IRS tracks this
>kind of thing, and this year's rate is like $0.49/mi.
Yeah. That's the reimbursement rate for business miles, i.e. if you use your own car for business tasks (but not including driving to and from work) that's how much your employer pays you.