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Each 10 cent/gallon Gasoline Price Increase Reduces Highway Deaths by 2.3% (CNN crawler)
CNN ^ | 04/12/11 | Self

Posted on 04/12/2011 7:55:34 PM PDT by Positive

This morning on CNN the "crawler"...those little news items that run on the bottom of the screen while the talking heads or doing what they do, a little item caught my attention.

It said: "Each 10 cents per gallon increase in the price of gasoline decreases the number of highway deaths by 2.3%".

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: economy; gas; media; oil
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I like to fiddle with numbers.

So here goes... Let's say the price of gas is $4.00 now - if each 10 cents increase reduces the number of highway deaths by 2.3% here is what we can conclude.

100% divided by 2.3 equals approximately 43.5, which means that if gas were increased by 43.5 times 10 cents, that would be a price increase of $4.35 per gallon.

So the bottom line is if gasoline goes from $4 to $8.35 per gallon...there would be no, zip, none, zero, nada highway deaths.

Wouldn't that be great?!?!

So we should put up billboards reading $8.35/gallon gas eliminates all highway deaths, according to CNN.

Of course, I suppose someone might get on the highway all by himself and try to get to 200 MPH and ruin the perfect number.

1 posted on 04/12/2011 7:55:35 PM PDT by Positive
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To: Positive

So....

How many times are going to post this?

;-)


2 posted on 04/12/2011 7:58:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic. Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: Positive

Insert different theme if Republican President:

Bush gas prices Pictures, Images and Photos


3 posted on 04/12/2011 8:00:36 PM PDT by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
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To: Positive
I just love the way the liberal freaks just pull numbers out of their ass and they kool-aid drinking followers just believe every lie they are being told.
4 posted on 04/12/2011 8:00:50 PM PDT by Nitehawk0325 (I have the right to remain silent, but I lack the ability...........)
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To: Positive

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.


5 posted on 04/12/2011 8:03:56 PM PDT by delacoert
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To: Positive
Already posted here
6 posted on 04/12/2011 8:05:23 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Of course Laz would hit it!)
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To: Positive

“So the bottom line is if gasoline goes from $4 to $8.35 per gallon...there would be no, zip, none, zero, nada highway deaths.”

If that’s the case, I’ll go back to driving drunk once gas hits $8.35, as I won’t be putting anyone’s life in danger.


7 posted on 04/12/2011 8:05:46 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts))
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To: JRios1968

Nu Uh.

Pulled.

it’s an ill wind that blows no good


8 posted on 04/12/2011 8:07:37 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Positive

It’s true ... if we can get unemployment and gas prices up enough, we can cut highway deaths to levels not seen since the early 1920’s ...


9 posted on 04/12/2011 8:09:11 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Positive
Regardless of the utter nonsense of the calculation...

I ask one question that exposes the utter calumny and duplicity of the lamestream media:

WOULD THIS BE ON CNN IF BUSH WERE PRESIDENT?

10 posted on 04/12/2011 8:09:18 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Positive

I guess this means that if we make the price of gasoline high enough (e.g. $1000/gal ), the death rate in the highway will be zero.

If we want to save lives, why not totally ban driving?? :)


11 posted on 04/12/2011 8:09:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: CommieCutter

You made the same point I did, but your picture is worth more than my fewer than a thousand words.


12 posted on 04/12/2011 8:10:36 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Positive

It also raises taxes in other areas eventually.

Have no fear, its a necessary skyrocket.


13 posted on 04/12/2011 8:13:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Positive

There are 30,000 to 40,000 automobile deaths in the US per year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year


14 posted on 04/12/2011 8:14:03 PM PDT by jq2
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To: Positive

Sooo...let’s have a DEPRESSION...no one will die! /s


15 posted on 04/12/2011 8:15:15 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: DManA

Twas a double post...sigh


16 posted on 04/12/2011 8:16:47 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Of course Laz would hit it!)
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To: Positive

Since I started driving when gas was $0.25/gallon, traffic deaths must be down 81.65% !!!!


17 posted on 04/12/2011 8:18:21 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: Positive

The more accurate statement would be that for every 10 cent increase in the price of gas, an additional 2.3% of the population is unable to afford to get where they are going. Eventually we will all be prisoners in our own homes waiting for Obama to allow drilling.

Another story in the news is that on-land oil drilling leaks are polluting the country. They will try to shut that down too.


18 posted on 04/12/2011 8:18:30 PM PDT by excopconservative
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To: Positive

If gas goes to $7.50, then there will be no road fatalities. This will bury the funeral parlor industry.


19 posted on 04/12/2011 8:20:02 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: BobL
If that’s the case, I’ll go back to driving drunk once gas hits $8.35, as I won’t be putting anyone’s life in danger.

If gasoline goes to $8.50, a whole lot of us will be heavily drinking to drown our sorrows.

20 posted on 04/12/2011 8:20:10 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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