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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!t7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <16ee1ea8-64b6-455c-bc10-c01b603ca2f3@t7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: How Much Should "Cycling Allowance" Be? Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 19 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.110.222.35 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1312651235 19314 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2011 17:20:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:20:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.110.222.35; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2119 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk

The usual suspects on uk.rec.cycling.censored are whinging that someone is only being given 6p/mile "cycling allowance" when travelling for work purposes. Apparently in some places it's *20p/ mile*!

But why should it even be as much as 6p/mile when we're told that one of the "many benefits" of cycling is that it costs so little? Do these people really want 20p/mile because they think that's what cycling actually costs and it's fair restitution, or do they simply think that hard-pressed companies should be giving them 20p/mile to reward them for being "morally superior" and "saving the planet"? Why exactly should any company care about that? Don't they just care about you getting from A to B?

So, what should "cycling allowance" be, if anything? (And why do some cyclists always think they should be getting things they're not entitled to simply because they're "saving the planet", whether it's an inflated "allowance", exemption from safety laws, or basically anything they can think of?)