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Old 12-17-2010, 04:07 PM
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And you do this [150 miles] every day???

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Originally Posted by xflowgolf View Post
. . . My commute is literally as follows:
1) Start car.
2) Drive 1/4 mile down street to highway onramp.
3) Drive ~73 miles on 70mph interstate (typically @~78mph)
4) Take ~1 miles side roads to parking lot.
. . .
Wouldn't it be easier to just move 73 miles? That's more one-way miles than my wife and I, before we retired, driving separate vehicles to work, accumulated in a week, round-trip!

BTW, the E300D will cruise effortlessly at 78 MPH.

Jeremy
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