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My experience is much the same as Euro's.
If I drive, most days it takes me about 40-50 minutes each way.
When I use public transportation (walk 1 mile to BART, two BART trains, then Emeryville free shuttle) it takes 90 minutes each way (and can be closer to 2 hours in the evening when connections are iffier).
Most of the time I still prefer public transportation for the reasons Chris gives. I can read (it had been years since I actually read through a full newspaper before I started riding BART), I can get a movie review written, if I feel like it I can bring my portable DVD player and watch a movie. Many times it is actually a respite.
Not dealing with either the distractions of home or the obligations of work (though if I have something pressing from work I can actually work on it). In a weird way it has become my "alone time."
But when it sucks, it really sucks. Way more than bad traffic driving home sucks. At least in bad traffic I am never crammed into the armpit of some smelly drunk on an overcrowded train with an AC that can't keep up with the communal stink of 200 people in the car.
But as said above all the factors have to be weighed and I don't really fault anybody who decides that the time multiple isn't worth it.
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