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Over-reliance on auto and truck transport is a growing problem throughout the industrial world. Yet no nation is so completely and thoroughly dependant on automotive transport as the United States. In 1994, Americans drove a total of 8,898 miles (14,317km) for every man, woman, and child. This was better than two and half times that of the Japanese (5,440km per person) and roughly double that of the French (7,976km per person), the British (7,020km), or the Germans (6,477) — a discrepancy that, thanks to the plummeting price of gasoline in the U.S., is undoubtedly growing worse (Federal Highway Administration, 1995: VII-2, VII-5). The U.S. transportation sector, not surprisingly, consumes two to three times as much energy per capita as the Japanese, French, British, or German transportation sectors, while total rail passenger travel in America is anywhere from 34 to 91 percent less than in those four countries, even though its population is three to four times greater (OECD, 1994: 6–7,
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Over-reliance on auto and truck transport is a growing problem throughout the industrial world. Yet no nation is so completely and thoroughly dependant on automotive transport as the United States. In 1994, Americans drove a total of 8,898 miles (14,317km) for every man, woman, and child. This was better than two and half times that of the Japanese (5,440km per person) and roughly double that of the French (7,976km per person), the British (7,020km), or the Germans (6,477) — a discrepancy that, thanks to the plummeting price of gasoline in the U.S., is undoubtedly growing worse (Federal Highway Administration, 1995: VII-2, VII-5). The U.S. transportation sector, not surprisingly, consumes two to three times as much energy per capita as the Japanese, French, British, or German transportation sectors, while total rail passenger travel in America is anywhere from 34 to 91 percent less than in those four countries, even though its population is three to four times greater (OECD, 1994: 6–7,
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