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If you drive a reasonable mileage car of about 25-30 mpg then a quick 30 minute drive should cost about a gallon of gas. Should be enough to get the baby to sleep. So would a new parent pay $5ish to sleep? If they have the money absolutely.
Of course once you start getting into the stupidly large vehicles that are 12 mpg the math starts to shift
That's so weird to wrap my head around, over here we use a reversed ratio for mileage: number of liters per 100km. So the lower the number, the better the mileage
It wasn't always so, the first fuel consumption gauges I had on my vehicles were in km/l, which is a much better metric. L/100km is a dirty trick invented by car manufacturers in my opinion.