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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.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stor ... aily9.html

[Sly Fox]

Count me squarely among the masses on this one.

[JDUB]

i carpooled more, so i guess that counts.