This comes as absolutely no surprise at all. You already spend forty hours or more working. Why do you spend an insane amount of time driving to and from your job, especially when gas prices are out of this world? http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/ In my humble opinion, if you spend more than half an hour going to your job one way, you are crazy. "...Commuting is a migraine-inducing life-suck—a mundane task about as pleasurable as assembling flat-pack furniture or getting your license renewed, and you have to do it every day. If you are commuting, you are not spending quality time with your loved ones. You are not exercising, doing challenging work, having sex, petting your dog, or playing with your kids (or your Wii). You are not doing any of the things that make human beings happy. Instead, you are getting nauseous on a bus, jostled on a train, or cut off in traffic...."