Calm down, mumraa, nobody is saying that you can't ask your friends to pay a legal cost-share in order to fly with you. Please have a look back at what PhilD, rustle, I and a few others actually said. Some of us, as a matter of personal taste, find the idea of asking friends to pay for rides in our crates a little, well, tacky, but that isn't the main issue. What underlies the cooking and sportscar-driving digs directed lightheartedly towards you is the idea that none of us ought to have an expectation that others ought to help us to pay for our flying, whether it be recreational or career-oriented. If someone does not want to pay, is that really something worth complaining about here on pprune, as though that person had broken some rule of friendship or of flying?
I must confess to being surprised that this subject has run to three pages, but I suppose that I must accept some share of the blame for that, so I shall sign off now, and retire to the customary bath of Dom Perignon in which we elitists like to relax whilst leafing through the latest brochure from some outfit offering to gold-plate our aircraft (hey, it ******s up the weight and balance, but it sure looks good when you're parked up outside the airfield bar).