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Higher gas prices won’t keep near-record number of Americans from Memorial Day travel; delays could triple
INRIX, in collaboration with AAA, predicts drivers will experience the greatest amount of congestion on Thursday, May 24 and Friday, May 25 in the afternoon.
May 17, 2018
Roadbuilding
Rising traffic fatalities in Maine prompt new safety plan
Due to an increase in traffic fatalities, the Maine Department of Transportation has released a new Strategic Highway Safety Plan. The plan sets out focus areas, such as lane departure, speeding, impaired driving, and recommends strategies to address them. “Maine’s traffic fatalities have been on the rise during the last three years after seeing improvement […]
February 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
More drivers to hit the roads this holiday despite higher gas prices
AAA is predicting this holiday season’s travel volume will be one for the record books, with a 3.1 percent increase compared to last holiday season. In all, 107.3 million Americans will travel between December 23 and January 1, AAA estimates. It marks the ninth consecutive year of travel increases for the holidays. Of the travelers, […]
December 22, 2017
Roadbuilding
Oil supply to keep gas prices low through the summer
Gas prices are projected to be more than a dollar per gallon lower this summer than during the summer of 2014, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicted Wednesday. Basing the projection on a large drop in Brent crude oil prices, the EIA estimated U.S. average regular gasoline retail prices will average $2.45 per gallon during […]
April 9, 2015
Business
Falling oil prices could slow Texas construction industry
Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has already taken a hit from falling oil prices and a new report from the Washington Post cautions that the Texas construction industry might soon see a slowdown for the same reason. The Post reports that credit rating agency Fitch has said that the ongoing drop in oil prices could undo some of the income generated […]
January 16, 2015
Business
Will the plunge in crude oil prices kill the fracking boom?
For the last few years the conventional wisdom has been that fracking and oil and gas extraction in shale will continue to be profitable as long as crude oil prices remain above $70 a barrel. Below that point, middle eastern crude, which can be pumped out of the ground for less than $20 a barrel […]
December 23, 2014
Roadbuilding
Your Swine Airlines flight is ready for departure
This is a fact: Gas taxes go up. All across the country they go up. Despite what you might think from listening to Washington politicians, they do go up. This week they go up. And they go up for a variety of reasons. But they go up. For politicians elected to national office to dig […]
July 1, 2013
Roadbuilding
The cost of gasoline: Them and us
Now this is a fun table to play with. I’m all for this sort of interactivity if I know how to work it and it is not built solely for software developers, MBAs and chess champions. Bloomberg looks at countries around the world and tell us in data from each country (a) the average price […]
June 25, 2013
Roadbuilding
The Family Gasoline Bill: Scarcity trumps efficiency
Americans spend a relatively small part of their income on gasoline. But it’s unlikely to get any smaller. It was just a bit less than 4 percent of income before taxes in 2012, the highest in nearly three decades. Consider that the percentage has remained fairly near this number for some years, and that the […]
June 12, 2013
Roadbuilding
John Wayne on a little motorcycle
The cost of owning and operating a vehicle keeps going up. It’s news, I suppose, but not news that will surprise you. And I’m guessing it’s not news that will change a whole lot of habits. Some, yes. The transit and bike people like these numbers, and they do show, pocketbook-wise, that transit can save […]
April 30, 2013
Business
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April 5, 2012
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