Most expensive places to drive

I spend about $50 a week and about 2 1/2 hours a day commuting to and from work. I also get to see mountain vistas, rolling hills, and family farms. When I lived in Rochester, MI and commuted to Detroit (a 20-mile trip), I still spent 2 and 1/2 hours a day in the car and spent what (at the time) felt like a small fortune in gasoline. Statistics don't lie, but they can oversimplify.

I don't think that they lie as much as you are not representative of the vast majority of people who commute into the Troy/Albany NY area. The higher the cost of property the longer the commutes; Albany is not an expensive city to live in and most people probably don't commute for more than an hour a day. I can agree with the commute being much more scenic though; I hate driving on highways, give me a nice country drive any day.

I commute about 100 miles a day from northern Saratoga County to Troy (Albany). At 25 mpg, that means 4 gallons per day @ $2.30, 230 days per year works out to $2116 per year. Per the article, I should double the number to include my wife (? - not accurate). A much bigger variable is the efficiency of the vehicles driven. I'd be interested to learn if there are regions that tend toward enviro-friendly vehicles and others with an exceptionally high percentage of trucks and SUVs.