Gas is back on the move again with prices up 15 cents nationwide in the last month.
Driving was down 3.5% in October 08. It will be interesting to see if it spikes now that cas is realitivly cheap.
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October 2008 Traffic Volume Trends
Travel on all roads and streets changed by -3.5% (-9.0 billion vehicle miles)
for October 2008 as compared with October 2007.
Travel for the month is estimated to be 249.7 billion vehicle miles.
Cumulative Travel for 2008 changed by -3.5% (-89.2 billion vehicle miles).
Cumulative estimate for the year is 2,425.7 billion vehicle miles of travel
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Why can't they come up with numbers of galloned used or barrels of oil? Or have they and I just can't find it? Miles is not a good indicator of the amount of oil we use or is it?