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Article: The Chicago Tribune Jim Mateja column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 29, 2006
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Byline: Jim Mateja
Mar. 29--The AAA no longer calculates the cost of owning and operating a car based on the wheels in Methuselah's driveway. So that expense declined 6.2 cents a mile, or $620 a year for 2006 from 2005--despite higher gas prices. The AAA has been working up these numbers since 1950 for its annual "Your Driving Costs" brochure. For years it used the Chevrolet Cavalier to represent small cars, Ford Taurus for midsize, Mercury Grand Marquis for full size, two-wheel-drive Chevy TrailBlazer for midsize sport-utility vehicles and Dodge Caravan for mini-vans. "But Cavalier has been discontinued, Taurus is about to be, most drive ...
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