$800 = about 3 months of gasoline at $60 per week for the average tax payer burdened with paying everybody else’s bills, because most tax payers drive to work 5 days a week.
I work from my home. No commute. If not for giving my son a ride to work, the battery on my truck would run down and die. He pays for the gas I use to transport him. Lest you think working at home is a party, realize that I'm always at work. My phone rings from early morning until late evening (11 PM) with calls from my colleagues all over the U.S. I allocate about 800 sq ft of my house to support my work. The computers, electricity, heating/cooling, DSL, ISP and cellphone costs all come out of my after tax income. My company only pays for postage (USPS, UPS, FedEx) and domestic mileage to deliver the parcels to the appropriate shipping agency.
My wife has a wretched 1.1 mile commute to work...4 days a week for 10 hour shifts. The cost of gasoline is a nuisance.
I won't have any problem putting a check right back into the economy. It will support a local businessman, a U.S. manufacturer and all the trucking companies that deliver the goods from the factory to my town.