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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

As gas goes up, driving goes down

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/26/...ng/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Excerpt:

At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate.

Americans are not driving as much as they did a year ago as gas prices skyrocket.

The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded.

Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less -- that's 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT's Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history." Records have been kept since 1942.

(Nice to have some good news in the mainstream media for a change. --Mark)