I know this is a sensitive topic for most of us, but I have even more depressing statistics to share about how much Americans are spending annually on gas. An interactive tool from the Center for Neighborhood Technologies (think gloomy Walk Score) shows how annual household spending on gasoline has grown over the past eight years in major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S.:
Across the 52 areas studied, residents spent a combined $107.4 billion more on gasoline in 2008 than in the year 2000 – an average increase of 155%. That is quite a chunk of change!
Makes you want to seek out alternative forms of transportation even more, doesn’t it?
From Sightline.
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