And you thought YOU had a long commute...

Interesting,

Personally I don't have a problem with the long commute, especially when someone else is driving as I can enjoy the passing landscapes and can contemplate.

The problem though is the inefficient fuel consumption and wear and tear on the vehicle and the infrastructure that only leads to more energy consumption, I wish we would have solar bikes or flying gravitational pods of some kind to minimize the impact.

Isn't the commute the worst factor in calculating the effect of an individual 'global carbon footprint' that gears toward cognisance of sustainability?

You may calculate your own here:Global Carbon Footprint

Of course this goes beyond carbon:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/

I gotta plant a lot of trees this year to redeem it.

 

Long commutes suck and they are a waste of my time.

Currently, I commute 30 miles each way, about 45 minutes each way, and hate it. Total, utter, waste. Yeah, there are things I can do to make it more pleasant, but the underlying feeling is that it sucks. SUX.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Apr 21 2006, 12:12 PM) [snapback]243157[/snapback]</div>

It looks like you would better do the zoom-zoom... for 45 minutes, wouldn't you? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

He gets about 30 MPG at $3 a gallon (do the math from the article).

He spends about $4000 per month on vehicle wear and tear. That's enough to buy a very nice house near where he works.

Nate

 

That's a lot of $!!!
I live ~9 miles from my workplace and spend 45 minutes - 1 hour in traffic each way. I could cut my commute in half by taking the interstate, but I refuse.

 

I have an 80 mile round trip commute per day. It takes me about 45 to 50 minutes each way. It is all highway and pretty much of a reverse commute so I have no real complaints, except the Prius seat is not the best. I think that it would be tough to live 9 miles from work and take an hour to get there. That's the kind of thing that drives me (pun intended) crazy. It is like running on a treadmill. I bought my Prius right before taking this job and starting the commute. I admit to being a bit of a tree hugger and I also figured that between the gasoline and tax breaks, I could help my conscience, the environment and my pocketbook with one large purchase!

 

WHY????
I guess being at home must really be bad that the long commute balances it out?????

are we really getting that stupid?

 

Some have a long commute (like Las Vegas to Los Angeles), but they have an apartment so they don't go home every night. When I worked in El Centro, there were those who commuted to San Diego (120 miles each way) every night. At a business in San Diego, there were some who commuted from Orange County (about the same distance). After all, if you really like where you live and don't want to move every time you get a new job, you have to make sacrifices somewhere.

When I got the Prius, my commute was 5 miles each way, residential streets only. The company moved so it's now about 18 miles each way. At least it varies; it's residential, winding roads and freeway.

 

My 'commute' varies. I have to visit any one of a dozen or so locations on most days. The closest is about 30 miles each way, the furthest, about 100 miles each way. Most times, there is no real traffic, ecept for accidents and construction.... but even that is not often. I often say I'd rather drive 100 miles in the Hudson Valley than 15 miles down near NYC.

I put between 35 & 38,000 miles a year on the car. The dealer even joked, that I was getting a 3 yr, 100,000 mile extended warranty! The Prius is cutting my fuel bill in half... and as gas prices go up, it save me more.. right now I'd estimate about $150 a month... That's about 60% of my Prius payment

 

I'd have to nominate this guy for dumbass of the year.

This is what cheap gas brings us (at least it used to be cheap)...what a friggin waste of resources. He's just wasting his life away in his car.

LOSER :angry:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(2Hybrids @ Apr 22 2006, 04:59 AM) [snapback]243575[/snapback]</div>

Hey,,, why the hostility?? :huh:


Or where you referring to the orginal commuter?

If me......
It's a job that someone has to do... at least now I'm doing it in a Prius....
I set my cruise control at 63/64, depending on my mood, while all the single occupant SUVs blow by & around me at 75-80. Save your hostility for the 'dumbasses' there.
I'd love to have a job 5 mles from home, but alas, it's not to be.


Peace & love 2Hybrids B)

 

I have had the same commute pretty much for 26 years. I have made a few adjustments and vary things a bit, but it is about 9 miles country driving and 4 miles city streets. 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year....26 years.

I started HATING it about 5-6 years ago and wanted to move to within 2 miles of work. My wife didn't want to move. Now I just have 8 months to wait until my commute will be history (I retire in Jan. '07)

(sorry you ignore me now dsnman...I see you can be pleasant on non-religious topics)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Apr 21 2006, 08:43 AM) [snapback]243136[/snapback]</div>

I just checked... he is not an EE...

I have two co-workers that can match his commute, except they are smart enough to commute only once a week.

One commutes from Fesno to SJ. And the other from Idaho to SJ...

 

My commute is 126 miles each way, for 252 round trip. And... it goes into the DC beltway.

Time varies from 1:50 to 4 hours. Avg is 2:15 each way, thanks to HOV lanes. But, I go round trip just twice a week, so I am not completely insane. I can take back roads part of the way to vary the scenery.

 

Man, thats like filling up everyother day, unless hes hyper mileing!

I would either move closer or find something closer.. My wife does about 100 miles round trip to work in the next county.

I luckly have a take home car which saves some gas, but so the tax payers arent footing the bill we have to pay to take the department cars home $60 a month but thats still cheaper than wear/tear on the personal car.. my commute is 13 miles one way plus the 150 or so I put on during my shift. I keep begging for another hybrid..