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Show Poor Highways Found to Be Rather Expensive Based on an annual mileage of 11,-000, 11,-000, this year's motoring will cost the car owner who drives on poor roads $226.60 more than the expenditures expendi-tures of motorists who drive the same distance on high-type roads, according accord-ing to the touring department of the Detroit Automobile club. This wide difference In the cost of motoring Is calculated from figures fig-ures furnished the motor club by the highway education board. The board based Its findings on the cost of operating op-erating an automobile of the average size. "It costs an average of $.0206 per mile more to drive a car on a bad road than on a good highway," says a motor club statement. "While this sum may seem negligible, one year of driving 11,000 miles on poor roads will result In the additional cost already mentioned. It is a fact that the approximate ap-proximate tax upon each car owner for a system of adequate highways Is, with respect to the country at large, In the neighborhood of one-tenth of the additional cost of driving over bad roads for one year. "In approving any good roads programs pro-grams motorists are therefore approving approv-ing an Investment that will annually bring them dividends 10 times the size of their original investment. It would be extremely difficult to conceive con-ceive a manner In which money could b Inrested more profitably." |