"Has the United States passed peak car? It's one
of the more tantalizing questions that energy and urban-planning nerds are
pondering these days. Ever since the recession, Americans have been driving
less, getting fewer licenses, and using less gas. But is that just the work of
the recession, or something more permanent?
Over the past several months,
Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute
has released a series of short papers chipping away at the
peak-car issue. They don't give us a definitive answer. But his findings,
collected in a third study released this week, do a marvelous job
illustrating the post-bubble decline of car buying, driving, and fuel
consumption in the U.S."
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/crash-the-decline-of-us-driving-in-6-charts/281528/
