You'd be surprised at how much people do actually have to drive around.

It used to be the case that all the teachers at my primary school were local and lived in the village or nearest town... now they all live in the big cities. All of them will drive between twenty and forty miles to get to the school, and the same distance back. The same is true for about half of the teachers at the Grammar School.

Then there are all the people who live locally and work in one of the big cities - the nearest is thrity miles away. Some people could drive 100 miles in a day, simply to go to work.

And this is just a minute part of the country. Whilst it may not be the same down South, where people will either live in the city or commute on trains, around the Midlands, the North, and in Scotland, it's very rural, so people will have to travel a long way to get to work. The amount of money they spend on petrol per week is stupidly high.