atikovi
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Oil change maybe $18 with Mobil 1 and Honda filter. OCI irrelevant as the car will be sold before the next change. Same with tires, belts, etc. unless you care to calculate the depreciation of a 20 year old car going from 226,000 miles to 228,000 miles or get out a micrometer to measure the wear of the tires and belts during the trip.What does an oil change in the car you drove cost? What is the OCI? You may not have "added a quart" midway but you definitely had cost. Same with tires, belts, etc. All cost money and all are used up a bit every mile driven. I get you don't acknowledge that fact but that's still money you spent. And it was more than 7 cents a mile. But even at 7 cents a mile that means it would have cost $250 to ship it, not $400. Factor a truer cost, say 12 cents a mile and it only actually cost $150 to ship it. And probably not even that.