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				Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is lamenting the fact that Americans are driving less, resulting in declining <a href="http://jalopnik.com/385751/proposed-gas-tax-holiday-panned-as-gimmick-also-water-is-wet">gas tax revenues</a> and decreased funding for <a href="http://jalopnik.com/5056861/ten-highways-that-should-be-destroyed-now">road projects</a>. As eTrucker reports, the federal government already had to make an emergency contribution of <a href="http://jalopnik.com/5046637/federal-highway-trust-fund-could-run-dry-this-month">$8 billion to the DOT</a> in September to continue in-progress projects. Statistics show Americans have driven 62.6 billion miles less than they did over the same nine-month period last year, leading Peters to remark "If we don’t evolve our policies, we will leave a sad legacy of old roads, crowded highways and unfulfilled transit ambitions." Which is exactly what we have now, so who do we blame for that? [<a href="http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=72760&navigation=CCJ_daily_report">eTrucker</a>; <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~net/photos/cappadocia/cappadocia/">Photo Credit</a>]				<a href="http://jalopnik.com/5058033/dot-reports-americans-still-driving-less" title="Click here to read more about DOT Reports Americans Still Driving Less">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:45:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Stoy]]></dc:creator>
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