July 30, 2013
5 ways commuting ruins your life
Hours spent driving can wreck finances, health, and marriage
Gas prices have risen 16 cents per gallon this month, according
to GasBuddy.com, a site and app that tracks gas prices nationwide, and now hover
at $3.66-per-gallon. That’s bad news for millions of Americans who commute daily
by car. Around 2.2 million U.S. workers have a daily commute of at least an hour
to and from work, according to the “American Community Survey” by the U.S.
Census, and 600,000 full-time workers are so-called super-commuters, spending 90
minutes and traveling 50 miles to get to work every day. The good news: “Gas
prices are the highest in July and August, but go down in September,” says Jason
Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy.
“Many people aren’t aware of how much they actually spend on commuting,” says
Rob Perkins, transportation campaign director at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, a non-profit environmental advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. The
NRDC found that commuters spend $2,180 to and from work in urban areas and
$3,347 in the suburbs, while rural commuters spend $4,272 a year. Those who
don’t commute to work only spend $1,857 a year on gas.
Here are 5 other ways commuting may damage your financial, physical and even
emotional health.
— By Quentin Fottrell
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