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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   I can't find the original message, but somewhere along the long winding   
   route of the sci-fi predicting the future topics it detoured onto   
   methods of travel and people today often having longer work commutes.   
      
   In yesterday's local newspaper there was an article about a man in the   
   UK who travels for three hours to work (and three hours to get home   
   again) every weekday by car. He travels about 160,000km / 99,419 miles   
   every year and has to get up at 3:30am to travel from South Wales to   
   almost London. It costs him about £15,000  / US$24,660 per year, which   
   includes and £1,600 in toll fees and £900 per month for diesel fuel,   
   plus the usual car licensing, etc.   
      
   By horse, that commute would have taken days, and on foot it would have   
   taken weeks if not months.   
      
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