Based on a recent poll, nearly 90% of Americans made an adjustment in their life to help offset the rising cost of gasoline. Remember when gas hit $2 and everyone freaked out? Remember when gas hit $3 and people started saying they were going to stop driving, but didn't? Well, it looks like $4 gas, in these tough economic times, is the real breaking point.
How Are Americans Dealing With $4 Gas?
How Are Americans Dealing With $4 Gas?
(via www.dailyfueleconomytip.com)
Submitted by hawker400 on Wed, 2008-05-21 11:50. | Tags: transportation | fuel | fuel economy | gas | gas mileage | gasoline | oil
$4 at the pump was a game... now it's real
The high fuel consumption vehicles of the last few years were blatantly INSANE but apparently that's what lots of people needed to do in this country as a last hurrah..
$4 at the pump was the news 'headlines' for the launch of World Without Oil alternate reality game, online last year. It turned out to be so astonishingly close to the truth that the game attracted an unprecedented number of non-gamers and is still winning awards for activism/environmentalism: http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#AH8AFH7JHGIFK2
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