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Commuting takes its toll in dollars, gasoline, lost time and soulsNebraska Rural Living
For millions of Americans, commuting is "a twice-a-day slog" of "stop-creep-slow-creep-stop." Worse, says Nebraska Rural Living Editor Phil Soreide, it's costing us plenty: the cost to the country in fuel wasted in traffic jams topped 3.9 billion gallons in 2009 - that's about $11.7 billion at $3 a gallon. Commuters in Chicago and Washington lose 70 hours of their lives to rush-hour traffic every year. That's not the time they spend commuting — that's how much longer they spend in a car than they would if roads and freeways around urban areas weren't so congested. Read article at Nebraska Rural Living
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