America:Cars, Suburbia, and Conspicuous Consumption | 72 comments (72 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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That Pie chart looks good for Jeromes next oil based diary at Kos. for those people who say that oil prices are shutting out peoples ability to go to work. If that distance comes down to less than 17% in total, there's got to be some slack in other places that they can discard.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 07:22:41 AM EST

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The thing that we don't know though, is the the division by distance traveled. If people travel 18 miles round trip to work. And make 9-2 mile round trips to the the grocery and shopping, then they take the same amount of gas even if the graph says that work travel is 10% of trips by purpose.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 01:25:44 PM EST
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I just noticed that too. A breakdown of total miles instead of total trips would be far more useful. The categories are ambiguous as well.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 01:54:17 PM EST
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Re: America:Cars etc. (4.00 / 3)

There is publicly available microdata available. Right hand column 4 boxes down.

The next survey is set for release in 2009, which should be interesting to see.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 02:00:37 PM EST
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America:Cars, Suburbia, and Conspicuous Consumption | 72 comments (72 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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