Posted on 04/12/2011 7:55:34 PM PDT by Positive
This morning on CNN the "crawler"...those little news items that run on the bottom of the screen while the talking heads or doing what they do, a little item caught my attention.
It said: "Each 10 cents per gallon increase in the price of gasoline decreases the number of highway deaths by 2.3%".
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Just what do you mean by “positive thing”?
Your comment matches your tagline. Maybe I should have posted with a :)
I reckon they just die at home, then. So an increase in price would increase the number of people who die at home.
And once we arrive at zero highway deaths, and the price of gas continues to rise, by my calculation we’d start getting highway births. Win, win!
Again this was Liberal talk radio, saying this. Their reasons - it would force us to walk making America healthier. News shopping centers would open in walking distance of neighborhoods, creating jobs, and of course the whole save the planet thing. That is why hardly any of these liberal callers thought high gas prices was a bad things.
Go back a few years though and these same bozos where saying Bush's Oil buddies were getting rich
If the bozos down at CNN want to do something, they should add how many illegals it takes flooding across our borders to wipe out that 2.3% decrease in highway fatalities. This is typical commie ‘RAT horse****.
I wonder to what extent this rate of reduction in deaths correlates with the recently reported seven consecutive weeks of reduced driving. (based on credit card gasoline purchases)
REALLY?
Did they note this when gas prices were rising under Bush, too??
Oh....
wait....
They only try to cover for DEMOCRAT incompetence.
corrolation IS NOT causation
As buggy whip sales have dropped over time, traffic deaths have increased dramatically.
All Americans should be required to purchase buggy whips to reduce traffic deaths. Kinda like mandatory heath insurance will decrease illnesses. \sarc
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Not necessarily.
It is a known, proven, fact that anyone that owned a buggy whip during the ‘War Between the States’ is dead.
So owning a buggy whip is not automatically a ‘life saver’.
“100% divided by 2.3 equals approximately 43.5, which means that if gas were increased by 43.5 times 10 cents, that would be a price increase of $4.35 per gallon.”
Fun to think about...but, it doesn’t work the way you describe. The quote is for every ten cent increase traffic deaths decline by 2.3%. So, if there were 100 deaths before the next ten cents increase we would expect 2.3 fewer deaths...then on the next ten cent gas increase we would expect 2.247 deaths (2.3% of 97.7 deaths prior to the new ten cent increase but after the initial ten cent increase). Theoretically, we would never reach zero deaths although the chance of death would get very very small...
Goodness....these people are crazy. Keep your tank full....you don't want air in your tank...evaporation....
I suspect that the death rate per vehicle mile traveled does not see such a dramatic change.
Wow! Imagine how low the rate will be when gas prices keep EVERYBODY off the road!/s
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