# Americans Driving Less

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/americans-driving-less/52355 "2008-07-29T13:16:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/americans-driving-less/52355/13 "2008-07-30T11:29:22Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> :lol:
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> Young’ins not reading their history books again.
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> [1973 oil crisis - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis)
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> Driving is down right now. Oil will fall, people will adjust to the prices, and driving will go back up.

ZOMGWTFBBQ!!

Links to wikipedia = ban!

j/k but who is to say gasoline consumption will ever return to historical levels (read: highs)? Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. Right now people are scrambling for alternatives and more efficiency which seems to indicate a path towards not returning to those levels.

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