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TABLE 14-5 Average
Motor Gasoline Prices and Highway Vehicle-Miles of Travel per Capita:
1994–2004
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| Gasoline
price (chained 2000 dollars) |
1.30 |
1.31 |
1.37 |
1.35 |
1.16 |
1.25 |
1.56 |
1.50 |
1.38 |
1.55 |
1.78 |
| Vmt per
capita |
8,960 |
9,098 |
9,228 |
9,396 |
9,540 |
9,644 |
9,735 |
9,812 |
9,916 |
9,941 |
U |
KEY: U = data are unavailable; vmt =
vehicle-miles of travel.
NOTE: To eliminate the effects of inflation over
time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics converted current dollars (see
table 14-4b) to chained 2000 dollars.
SOURCES: Motor
gasoline prices—U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information
Administration, Monthly Energy Review, table 9.4, available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/, as of May
2005. Vmt
per capita—U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and
Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS), calculations using data from USDOT, BTS, National Transportation Statistics 2004, table 1-32, available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of May
2005. Population—U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, section 1, table 2, available at http://www.census.gov/,
as of May 2005.
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