Questão 27 - UPE SSA 3ª Fase - 1° Dia 2023

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A NEW ALTERNATIVE TO CAR OWNERSHIP

New drivers are usually excited about their new freedom: “My mom doesn’t have to drive me everywhere anymore! I don’t have to ask my friends for rides to school!” When you don’t have your own car yet, any price seems worth paying.

But once you buy a car, you can’t forget your car payments and insurance premiums, or you won’t be a driver for very long. You can’t leave gas and maintenance out of the budget either. Car sharing offers an alternative to these problems, however. Members of carsharing groups have a car when they need one for either short trips of vacations, but they don’t have the high expenses of ownership. They pay very little to use a shared car, and they don’t have to worry about maintaining the car or paying the insurance.

Fees for short trips are only about $3.00 an hour plus $0,50 per mile.

Groups do not have strict requirements either. Members must not have bad driving records or poor credit, and they must not return the cars in poor shape or they will pay extra.

FUCHS, M.; BONNER, M. Grammar Express. New York: Longman, 2000. p.148. (Adaptado).

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