Have you changed your driving habits in the past year?
How about in the past six months?
Are you driving less?
Are you carpooling?
Do you take a bus?
Have you bought an economy car?
Do you think before you drive...planning our your day now?
Now that fuel has come down in price, will you go back to your old ways, or will you stay with your change for good?
After all, we haven't solved our energy crisis...this is just temporary, right?
"Americans are driving less despite falling gas prices, reflecting the deepening recession and signaling a shift in lifestyles and driving habits that could outlast the current turmoil.
Drivers logged 10.7 billion fewer miles in September than they did the same month a year earlier — a 4.4% decline, according to data issued Wednesday by the Federal Highway Administration.
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The data reflect the effects of the worsening economy.
"With the unemployment rate going up, people are just not driving," says Fred Milch, division planner for the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, in the South Atlantic region that saw the biggest year-to-year driving decline (5.7%). "They just don't have the money to go on leisure trips and don't have money to go shopping. … People get in the habit of not having to drive."
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