Is this a fair transportation fee?

I currently have myself a little job, and I've been getting a ride to work, to and from. I'm currently being charged $15 per trip "because of gas". Recently, others found out about the charge, and have said it is way too much.

I want to know if this is true or not, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out by myself. In total, to and from, we travel 92 miles. The vehicle is a 2001-2003 Honda Civic sedan. Unfortunately, this is all the info I can get on the car itself.

Now I know that's not a lot, but based on the little info I could give, can someone give me a rough estimate on how much I should be being charged, or if $15 is a fair price. Gas here is about 3.45-3.47

Added (1). Update: I'm only being charged for gas, nothing additional. I'm also the only other person in the vehicle. I live in the same home as the person giving me the ride.

After doing some research, the MPG is 28/35

After calculating, the amount of gas rounds either down or up to 3 gallons. 3 gallons x the price of gas, 3.47, is equal to about 10.40, which rounds down to 10. So if this is correct, I'm only using $10 worth of gas.

The cost of driving is more than just gas. Every mile you drive makes your car worth less money (depreciation), you wear out your tires, your belts, your steering system, etc. Detailed calculations put the average TOTAL cost somewhere around 50 cents per mile. A civic with high MPG might be a little less, but not by much.

So that 92 mile trip really costs about $40 or more when you include gas AND other things such as maintenance, repairs, depreciation, annual registration, insurance, etc. You're paying less than half the real cost. I'd say that's fair, considering the distance involved.

Plus, you are just riding along while the other person drives. They have to pay attention to the road for that time, but you're free to read books, play games on your phone, or whatever - so even if you were paying more than half the cost it would still be fair.

If you have your own car, the most fair way to carpool is to just take turns driving and nobody exchanges any money. But it sounds like you don't have a car so that's not an option. You can try taking the bus, but it would only save you a few dollars and would take much longer, you could move closer to work (or find a job closer to home), but realistically if you're commuting 92 miles per day then $15/ day for a door to door ride is actually really cheap compared to your other options.

A 2002 Honda Civic gets a combined MPG of 23, so 23 miles per gallon. Depending on if its was all interstate driving with no stops or highway driving with red lights this number could go up or down by a few, but the average is probably near 23. The trip is 92 miles so 92/23=4 gallons a day. 4X3.45= $13.80 so you are paying for the gas everyday. I guess its not a bad deal if you have no other way to get there. If you were driving your own car you would have to pay the gas to get to the job everyday anyways, the guy driving is having to incur the cost of putting tires on the car, oil changes, insurance, and repairs.

So it comes down to do you think its fair to pay for all the gas everyday or do you think you should only pay for part of the gas. Whichever you choose is probably your answer.

I would say $10 to pay for most of the gas and the driver would take care of the wear and tear of the car.

I own a similar car, a 1997 Honda Accord, and it gets terrific gas mileage: high 20s (maybe 26-28) per gallon for city driving; close to 40 miles per gallon on the highway at the gas saving speed of 60 miles per hour. The car you're being driven in surely gets similar mileage. If it doesn't, either something's seriously wrong with the car, or its owner isn't maintaining it properly.

With those kinds of gas prices, your carpool partner would be spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 per trip for gas. Divided between two people, that would be about five dollars a trip. However, if your commute incurs tolls and/or parking fees, that would add to the cost, although if it's adding as much as 20 dollars a day, those are some very high tolls and parking costs!

All of the above is assuming that the person giving you a ride works with you, so is going that way anyway, and isn't going very far out of their way to pick you up. If that's not true--if they wouldn't be making the trip except for having to give you a ride, and/or if you live many miles out of their way--that would increase the costs, and how much it increases the cost depends on how out of the way it is for them. I also wrote that answer assuming that it's just the two of you carpooling. If there are more people riding with you and sharing the cost, that should lower it even more.

No I would charge you 20$ your getting off easy