Although average gasoline prices have plunged from more than $4.10 a gallon at their peak last year to about $1.65, American drivers - worried about far more than prices at the pump - have been staying off the roads in unprecedented numbers.
Interest in mass transit has gone up (at exactly the moment that cash-strapped governments are cutting bus service). Sales of fuel-efficient cars - to the extent that anyone can afford big-ticket items - are up, while sales of sport utility vehicles are down.
America's newly cautious drivers, among the world's biggest consumers of gasoline,...
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Gas Tax Increase - 2009-01-07 16:45:22
First of all you give the idea that some how the government & its agents care about consumers, which is absolutly incorrect. If they cut some of the pet projects/pork barrel of congress a gas tax would not be necessary to raise road funding, but we know that will never happen. We, the American consumers, have been slapped in the face so often what makes you think anything will ever change. If I sound bitter it is only based upon the history of our local, state and federal government (s).
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First of all you give the idea that some how the government & its agents care about consumers, which is absolutly incorrect. If they cut some of the pet projects/pork barrel of congress a gas tax would not be necessary to raise road funding, but we know that will never happen. We, the American consumers, have been slapped in the face so often what makes you think anything will ever change. If I sound bitter it is only based upon the history of our local, state and federal government (s).
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