Historic moments in driving behavior
Oil hit tickled $140 a barrel Friday.
A First since 1991, demand for gasoline will fall 0.3 percent this year. This represents thousands of barrels of oil a day. Demand usually increases 1% a year.The biggest decline since 1942, Americans drove 11 billion miles less in March than they did the same month in 2007. The Federal Highway Administration only started to track this figure in 1942.
Bus and train ridership is up 3.3 percent in the first quarter of 2008
Toyota's Camry outsold Ford's F-Series pickup for the first time since 1992.
St. Louis Post Dispatch
For a moment this week, oil speculation gave pause at this information and the price paused because the US devours 1/4 of the global oil demand.... then Middle East pressures resumed and so did the buy, buy, buy of oil!
