Monday, July 30, 2012

Chart of the Day


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Source Data:
U.S. Department of Transportation: Highway Statistics 2010

2 comments:

dearieme said...

Shouldn't they have plotted population too?

Or are some of those variables "per capita"?

Stagflationary Mark said...

dearieme,

I don't believe any of that is "per capita". I think the chart was done mostly from a total traffic perspective.

Here is a chart of population.

I find the purple data series the most interesting (especially since about 1980). It's so flat.

Fuel Efficiency vs. Oil Prices vs. Desire to Drive