It's common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.

I live at the southern tip of my population area. It's 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.

If you own a home, and you get a new job that's in the same region, but even farther away, you don't buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.

Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that's why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.

And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.