[wideminded]

Let's say the price of gas is $4.00 now - if each 10 cents increase reduces the number of highway deaths by 2.3% here is what we can conclude.

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.

So the bottom line is if gasoline goes from $4 to $8.35 per gallon...there would be no, zip, none, zero, nada highway deaths.

Every time the price goes up 10 cents, the size of the 2.3% is smaller. So actually if the rule of a 2.3% drop in deaths for every 10 cents increase held all the way until the price was $8.35, there would be 0.977 ^ 43.5 = 36% as many highway deaths.

[Graybeard58]

Every time the price goes up 10 cents, the size of the 2.3% is smaller. So actually if the rule of a 2.3% drop in deaths for every 10 cents increase held all the way until the price was $8.35, there would be 0.977 ^ 43.5 = 36% as many highway deaths.

Well, yes that's true but that's using the correct math and there's no excitement in that.

[seowulf]

Yes, indeed.

If we assume that free gasoline results in the death of everyone who drives and that each 10 cent increase results in 2.3% fewer deaths, my calculations show that we will reach the nirvana of zero deaths at $42.50/gallon.

Oh, happy day! Everyone will live forever.

[Positive]

Killjoy.

[Positive]

Killjoy.

[Positive]

Killjoy.