Allstate

Those trendy Californians… Recent jumps in gas prices have seemingly driven them [sic] to adopt a new chic habit: letting their cars run out of fuel on the highway. Allstate has announced that the number of Californians running out of gas on the highway jumped 17% in the first 5 months of 2008 compared to the same time period in 2007.

There are more out there but this is a sign of how big carbon offsets are getting in the domestic U.S. market.