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This story appeared on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

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We are a nation of drivers.

Only 5 percent of the country's commuters take public transportation. Everyone else is stubbornly sticking to their cars.

In fact, since 1990, the number of so-called "super-commuters," those who drive 90 minutes or more, has risen 95 percent.

One of them is Brian McCausland, a father of four. I met him in Pennsylvania farm country, and joined him on his ride to work, 50 miles away.

"Of course like the rest of the country we had no idea that the price of gas was going to essentially double," he said.

Now, he's spending $300 a month to go back and forth.

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CBS News begins a weeklong series, “Eye on the Road,” that examines the gas price crisis across America in a series of reports filed from the ground –- and the gas pump -– for The Early Show and the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric beginning Monday, May 12.

Two CBS News correspondents, Nancy Cordes and Jeff Glor, will begin their road trips nearly 3,000 thousand miles apart: Glor will leave from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and Cordes from outside The Early Show studio in New York City. As they travel across the country toward each other, they will report from towns and cities on a wide range of gas crisis stories beyond just rising costs. Think: possible solutions, including hybrid information and challenges for “super-commuters” in big cities. Viewers will get a first-hand look at a nationwide consumer crisis, as Cordes and Glor visit everywhere from emerging “bio-towns” in Indiana to RV parks in Nevada.

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