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Fuel Prices Could Go Up $700 For Average Household
- by Ami Cholia
If you use your car for even the shortest trips, you may want to reconsider your driving habits. The Department of Energy said yesterday that U.S. drivers will spend about $700 more for gasoline in 2011 than it did last year.
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Transportation Data
Single Women Spend Most Of Their Money On Shelter And Transportation
- by Ami Cholia
So where do most single women spend their money on? If you guessed clothes and shoes — you’d be way off the mark. It’s actually shelter and transportation.
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Do you live in a city where you can get around town for an entire week without worrying about hopping into a car? U.S. News has come up with its annual list of the 10 best U.S. cities for public transportation.
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A graph (above) published by Stanford University shows the connection between the average gasoline prices in the U.S. (Y axis) and the average miles driven per capita each year (X axis shows).
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Transportation Data
Intercity Buses Are America’s Fastest Growing Transportation Mode
- by Ami Cholia
Buses have gotten cool again. For the third year in a row, intercity bus service was the fastest growing mode of intercity transportation, outpacing air and rail transportation.
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Climate and Emissions / Electric Vehicles / Hybrids / Transportation Data
U.S. Gasoline Demand Is At A Decline, Not Likely To Go Up Ever Again
- by Ami Cholia
While America has spent the past several decades being unapologetic about its oil use, all that is changing. By 2030, Americans will burn at least 20 percent less gasoline than today, experts say, even as millions of more cars clog the roads, AP reported
Read more »Automakers, already reeling from the economic downturn, are now facing another problem: Generation Y is not interested in owning a car.
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Transportation spending falls 11 percent in 2009.
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Microsoft last week added transit directions to 11 major cities to the data available on Bing Maps, it’s mapping and directions tool
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Transportation Data
Male Drivers Waste $3,000 On Fuel Because They Refuse To Ask For Directions
- by Ami Cholia
We’ve all heard the cliché — men don’t like asking for directions. Turns out, they also end up driving an extra 276 miles each year because of their misplaced pride.
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