Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 2:30 pm
Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May
Record gas prices and a struggling economy are forcing more people to leave their cars in the garage.
Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May than a year ago, the third-largest monthly drop in the 66 years the data has been collected, according to Federal Highway Administration data released Monday.
The decline continues a seven-month decrease in driving that has amounted to 40 billion-plus fewer miles traveled since November 2007, compared with the same period a year earlier.
May's drop comes during a month when traffic usually rises because of the Memorial Day holiday and the start of the summer vacation season.
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