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Americans are driving less, and here's why
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Posted on 07/27/2013 3:42:24 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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People are driving less, yet the roads are crappier than ever. And it couldn't be because less people are working, could it? Love how they find every reason except that.
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:44:16 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
(Impeach Sen Quinn)
To: Red in Blue PA
Kids are brainwashed in scrull not to like crude oil or cars so they ride bicycles and skateboards. They don't have jobs so they can't buy anything anyway
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:45:04 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Could it be gas price has about doubled since Obummer came in?
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:45:07 PM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(Mr. President, can you hear a special prosecutor now?)
To: Red in Blue PA
Hellish Africa-like economy coming, that’s why. It’s mostly here and gaining momentum.
To: Red in Blue PA
Gas prices and crappy roads are probably the biggest factors. Anything to come out of UofM is tainted anyway.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:46:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Red in Blue PA
Americans are driving less, and here's why Only 47% of the workforce is working full time, so FAR fewer people have to drive to work. Thanks to Hussein 0bama and his socialist regime.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:49:48 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
To: The Sons of Liberty
It is a crowning achievement of his regime
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Red in Blue PA
Wish people around where I live drove less...Traffic is backed up everywhere, always until about 10:00 at night.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:50:37 PM PDT
by
guido911
(Islamic terrorists are members http://www.freerepublic.com/foof the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
To: Red in Blue PA
No money, no jobs, cars and gas are saved to get to whatever passes as work these days. No “green mind set” involved. Case closed.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:51:37 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Simple.
Gas prices, prices of cars (thus folks want to wear them out less), and when you’re unemployed, you have no where to go.
Honorable mention: live in a city like Cincinnati and the road condition sucks so bad you know it hurts your car to drive on it.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:52:36 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(“To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.” ~ Voltaire)
To: Red in Blue PA
If a little bit of poverty makes us drive less, just imagine how much less we'll drive under the catastrophic poverty Ubama has planned for us!
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:53:46 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: mountainlion
In the debate over high speed rail and bike lanes I hear liberals from Ann Arbor proudly proclaim that bicycles are the future of transportation.
I live a 40 minute drive from Ann Arbor and 20 from Jackson and these liberal idiots only respond with talking points about how wasteful rural drivers are. That’s ass backward anyway, rural drivers tend to make single combined trips.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:54:02 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Red in Blue PA
Um. Barry is stealing everyone’s money. People are driving less because they can’t afford to buy gas. Who are these morons writing this garbage?
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:54:05 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Amnesty. The DemocRATS' payback for the 2010 elections.)
To: Red in Blue PA; All
If the article mentioned the following then i missed it. Another reason that Americans are driving less is because many of them now have no jobs to drive to.
To: Red in Blue PA
They drive less in Cuba too.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:55:39 PM PDT
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: cripplecreek
UN Agenda 21 is their goal. Everyone lives in a commune and can walk or ride a government bicycle if needed.
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posted on
07/27/2013 3:56:52 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red in Blue PA
It’s more whistling in the dark by the Left. Less people in the workforce, between people who are unemployed, underemployed, on disability or have give up looking the true figure given by Forbes is 14.3%. That’s a lot of folks not driving. Add in the changes caused by gas hikes. Just one more sign of the lousy economy brought to us by the “BIG Zero” not some embrace of green principal by “the plebeians”.
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:00:08 PM PDT
by
JayGalt
To: Red in Blue PA
Gas is more expensive. Fewer people in the workforce. I try to combine trips to save on fuel. I buy groceries and other sundries on the way home from work. Makes for an even longer, more tiring day, but it helps stretch the go-go juice.
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
bigredkitty1
(March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Also, instead of shopping in brick-and-mortar stores, I buy as much as I can online. No lines, no crowds, free shipping. I love it. No wasting gas and if need be, I can shop at 2 AM.
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:05:28 PM PDT
by
bigredkitty1
(March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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