Fuel Efficiency

Here's an article found on www.greenrightnow.com creating a link between higher gas prices and lower traffic fatalities...

"According to researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham ( UAB ) when people curb their driving, both by slowing down and driving less, traffic fatalities decline as well.

After studying driving fatalities and gas prices dating back to the 1985, these health policy experts are predicting that the current gas prices of $4 a gallon (or more), if sustained for at least a year, could bring a drop in traffic fatalities of more than 1,000 a month nationwide.

'For every 10 percent rise in gas prices, fatalities are reduced by 2.3 percent.'"

Source: http://www.greenrightnow.com/2008/07/14/gas-crisis-saving-lives-say-public-health-researchers/