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Good news about high gas prices: Highway deaths are going down

by Thor on Jul. 22nd, 2008

High gas prices may be killing our pocketbooks, but they're having a positive effect on highway accident death rates. Full details are here, but boiling it down to the basic fact, the National Safety Council is reporting a 9 percent drop in motor vehicle deaths through the first five months of 2008 compared to the same time period last year.

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Anonymous says:

that is a good thing..but the high gas prices are also killing our economy which is not helpful! if this continues we will have a depression again and many people will suffer.

posted on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 3:40pm

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