Dude, what kind of car are you driving if an 80 mile round trip stops you from going somewhere? Even if you were getting 10 miles to the gallon, that trip at the most would cost you an additional $16?
At $2.69.9 a gallon (which is a recent price) that’s nearly $22 at 10 mpg; highway miles is less than half that cost with what I’m drivin’ (which will remain my business, and irrelevant). I used to A) make more money and B) go to the beach nearly daily in the summers, and C) pay less per gallon, sometimes as little as $1 per. That works out to $330 a month (-ish). There are those who are blessed with that kind of money to (literally) burn, I just am not one of them.