The extra heat from this summertime is adding like $100/mo to my bill for a 2,400sqft house for like 3.5 months. This is a hotter than average summer, usually its like $75 or so more a month. So if my two cars cost more than like $350 for registration fees, then yeah I'd be paying more for registration fees than I do on AC. Given the fact others here suggest its several hundred dollars for a single car, then yeah I'd probably be paying way more for car registration fees than what I'm spending cooling my home. How much are motorcycle registration fees? We should probably tack on at least one motorcycle being registered as well.
And that's before the fact gas and electricity is routinely 2x more expensive in CA than TX, which energy costs are a large part of the costs of operating a car. If we were to really compare car ownership costs in CA vs TX to the idea of how much I spend on AC, it wouldn't even be close.
It's plausible; a $40k new gas-powered car in California would owe about $600 in annual registration fees in San Francisco.
Texas's electricity rates are about half of those in California, so 3 summer months' AC costs in Dallas could be notably less, especially for a small/single-person residence.
(And, Calfornia's gas costs about 40% more per gallon than in Texas, due to both taxes & other supply-limiting regulations - which one might reasonably consider an extra tax on having a car in California.)
You know I really don’t care if you believe me or not. I’ll sleep just fine. But since you asked oh so nicely… I had a Corolla and it cost me just under $800, and I’m just over $200/mo in electric
