>>>>>About $3.80/gallon
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>>>>Jeez, that is only about 70 euro cents / liter. When converted to dollar, we pay 6.40usd / gallon.
>>>>I can only wish we had these prices around here.
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>>>Combined with your distances on the island, great :)
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>>True. I drive almost the length of Cyprus each way to work 4 days/week.
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>That's interesting. What's the story?

You know I have my own company and I work for Bartlett & West in Topeka. Topeka is an easy drive - about 30 miles to work.

One of Bartlett and West's biggest customers is BNSF Railway, and BNSF specifically requests me to do pretty much fulltime development for them (at B&W contract rates). They had issues with a couple of other developers prior to me, so basically I'm at their disposal.

Anyway, the BNSF division I do the most work for is in Kansas City (100+ miles each way), and it's easier for me just to go onsite and get stuff done rather than try to do it remotely.

I guess the good points are that it is an easy drive - light traffic and almost all highway - and I easily make my car payments off the mileage reimbursement.