How long is your daily commute?

[Stinky The Clown]

My wife and I are indeed fortunate. We both work from home, in completely separate undertakings, and have for more years than either of us wish to count. She has one day a week for part of the year when she has to drive into DC - about 70 miles round trip. Other than that, our cars gets used for errands, for me to get to occasional business meetings, and for her to get to rehersals if she happens to be performing. We average about 30,000 miles a year, total, on all our vehicles

In short, we're less impacted by gas prices than most people.

It occured to me that its a safe bet that a lot of (former?) blivet supporters live in the far-out 'burbs in their chase after the American dream. Not that Dems don't, too, but I'd guess more Dems are urban or close-in-suburban than Repubs.

From that, I could postulate that high gas prices are more a drag, relatively speaking, on bushies than on lefties.

Is my logic flawed?

How long is your commute?

[DODI]

1. I have a 20 mile commute -- I live in a city and work in 'burb.

I am going to start telecommuting two days a week and go in for the other three.

[CottonBear]

2. 15 minutes to go about 8 miles.

I live in a blue city in an urban setting and I drive to work located the suburbs of a red county.

I couldn't afford to live ner my work even if I wanted too. I wouldn't want to live where I work but I do love my job.

Gas prices have affected me because I drive further out to the country to care for my horse after work and then drive about 25 minutes home. Mr. CB and I may switch vehicle because his gets better mileage and he has a shorter commute.

I drive against traffic along a scenic rural route in both the AM and PM and that makes my life very pleasant.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. My commute is 0

Laid off because business was bad. :(

It's the rural people that this is hitting hardest.

[Sammy Pepys]

4. Well, I don't drive to work anymore....

...but it had been five miles one way for the last two years.

But in the past ten years I've rarely had a commute that wasn't less than 15 miles one way. At one point I had an 80 mile roundtrip commute six days a week.

[BOSSHOG]

5. What's a commute?

I'm retired and about 100% of my driving is recreational. I fill up my little pickemuptruck about once a month.

[GOPNotForMe]

6. 10-minute drive to and from work.

I'm lucky to live in a medium-sized town wherein one could get from one side to the other in 20 minutes. I don't think I could do the suburban-commute-to-a-city thing that so many others do.

[TheLeftyMom]

9. Me too.

And we're in an older area of town that is close to the downtown area, so my commute is short because of that as well.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I work at home, too

and my husband is retired.

[jpak]

8. 20 minute walk - 8 minute bike ride

n/t

[AtomicKitten]

10. zip, nada, goose-egg

I work at home - often in my jammies - and drink way too much coffee, and frequently distracted by accidentally clicking on DU.

[Rude Horner]

11. 90 miles round trip every day

But at least it's all highway miles. Get out on the highway, set the cruise control, and 35+ minutes later, I'm at work.

[tandot]

12. until today it was a little under an hour with lots of stop-and-go

for 35 miles one-way. From Monday on it will be 1 hour in a train, no stop-and-go, for $124 a month. Actually the University I am working for will subsidize $15.

Because of the train schedule, I will be gone longer and my poor doggy has to keep it in for about 12 hours. But my boss offered me to work 4 days a week if I use the 2 hours on the train to work.

I am looking forward to a stress-free ride and a smaller carbon footprint.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. I **love** train travel .....

.... too bad junior and his ilk wanna kill it.

You'll get lotsa work done on a train .... unless that wonderful 'clickety-clack' and gentle rocking don't send you back for a visit with the sandman! :)

[tandot]

27. I did a test-run yesterday and already loved it

No more stop-and-go stress, near-miss accidents, and road-rage. And NO MORE driving behind the ignorant and morally corrupt with Bush-Cheney stickers on the back of huge pick-ups or SUVs.

I'll miss listening to Stephanie Miller, though :cry:

I just have to figure out how to connect ot the Internet. I read that Amtrak has WiFi, but I couldn't find out how to sign up or connect to it.

[khair75092]

14. I travel 57 miles

One way.

Guess I'm in the minority

[thereismore]

15. 60 miles round trip - but I vanpool. nt

[Arger68]

16. Around 2 miles. I can walk or bike when nice out

(but as a fat lazy American I usually don't).

[nickinSTL]

17. about a 15-mile commute...

takes about 20-25 minutes most days.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I'm about 2.5 miles from work..takes 5 minutes each way. I put

less than 3000 miles on my old station wagon a year and my 7 yr. old Saturn just turned up 57,000.

[Extend a Hand]

19. I work at home

my husband has about a 5 mile commute each way.

But our son's school is 15 miles from home...next year it will be 20 miles when he starts high school. I carpool now and reduce the number of back and forth trips by 40%.

I sure do hope I can find someone to carpool with next year. There is an express bus into the city that he could take but there have been so many newspaper articles about gang activity and violence at the on stop he would have to go thru...I'm afraid to let him ride the bus.

[AbbyR]

20. 50 miles each way

I would love to find another job, but I don't think it's happening.

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. I bike to my daily job, and three days a week I drive 12 miles

round trip to my P/T job (I would bike that, too, but it is EXTREMELY hazardous getting off work at 11PM and riding on NC roads).

I generally put less than 400 miles a month on my car, including trips to a neighboring town for my writers' group every two weeks.

[rock]

22. 20 minutes, mostly interstate

[leftofthedial]

23. well, I've never had any complaints . . .

[jeffgad]

24. No Commute. I work through the ether. And it has occurred to me

that the real breakthrough in our gas-guzzling, global warming society could happen very quickly, and quite cheaply, by simply changing our corporate culture a bit. Is it necessary for companies to have all their employees in the office? Can't many work at home? With web cams, cheap broadband and networking, can't corporations schedule say, 2 "live" work days per week and 3 "virtual?" Maybe the way out of this mess isn't just a man-on-the-moon type commitment to replacing our oil dependence, but also to look at the solutions right at hand.

-Gad

[Ilsa]

25. y husband's trip to the office is no more than 5 miles round trip.

It might be closer to 4 miles. He'd ride a bike if there weren't so many other cars on the road coming from further distances.

[ThomCat]

26. 2 hours, each way.

But it's all public transportation. It's also only 8-9 miles door to door. It just happens to be 8-9 miles through NYC.

[KayLaw]

28. I don't work.

I really only use my car to pick up my son from school and to shop but my husband has to drive about ten miles to work, and then drives around a lot as part of his job. Luckily, he gets a mileage allowance from work and drives a Toyota Carolla.

[spooky3]

29. An inverted U, I'm afraid

I agree with you up to the exurbs in the DC area and maybe elsewhere. But there are a lot of blue folks who cannot afford the city, the inner suburbs OR the outer suburbs, and commute from rural locations such as West Virginia. For example, this week's (or last weekend's?) Washington Post described a group of men who rode in a van 3 hours each day or more because there were no jobs in their small community but George Mason U in Fairfax scooped them up at about $35000 a year (IIRC) and helped them vanpool. A lot of people who do home repairs or cleaning in this area make those long commutes daily or crowd into more nearby homes but still pay through the nose to drive to work. I know some of them are fundy-type * supporters but I think a lot are blue-collar Democrats or at least do not have the Repub. demographics.