March driving down for 1st time since 1979: government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign that Americans are curbing their driving in the face of record-high gasoline prices, U.S. data released on Friday shows that highway miles driven in March fell 4.3 percent from a year earlier, the first March decline since the last major oil shock in 1979.
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