Record - USA - Gasoline at $3, drives people onto buses, trains
NEW YORK,NY,USA -Boston Globe (Boston,Mass)/Reuters, by Carolyn Koo -July 25, 2006: -- Gasoline prices at near-record highs are fueling a big increase in the number of riders on buses and trains, prompting cities around the country to improve their public transport systems, transportation agencies said... The Energy Information Administration, the U.S. government's top energy forecasting agency, on Monday said the average U.S. retail gasoline price increased 71 cents over a year ago to $3 a gallon, the second highest pump price ever... It's estimated that U.S. riders of public transport save 855 million gallons of gasoline a year, or $2.56 billion at current average prices for a gallon of regular gasoline, according to the APTA...
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