Originally Posted by benjay 
You're missing my point. 380+ mile trips are usually vacations, which are infrequent. The miles we drive commuting to work dwarfs those amounts. Saying the size of Germany is why Germans drive less is at best over-simplifying the statistic. At worst it's just plain wrong. I'm leaning towards just plain wrong.
At our workplace, we have several people who commute by driving their big vehicles 5,000-10,000 miles per year. If a person works in Des Moines and lives in Ames, he would be in that category. This is not happening in London or Berlin where people ride the train a similar distance. Europe is paying $9/gallon right now.
