{"id":2754,"date":"2012-02-24T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:28:47","slug":"why-arent-americans-driving-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-arent-americans-driving-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t Americans Driving Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/022212_0614_WhyArentAme1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why have Americans cut back on driving in recent years? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/driving-gas-prices-and-the-end-of-retail\/2012\/02\/18\/gIQAkAXxLR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> explored some theories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perhaps it&#8217;s all simply due to the recession \u2013 after all out of work people don&#8217;t commute.<\/li>\n<li>Or perhaps it&#8217;s because an ageing population leads to a population that drives less.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, perhaps the younger generation is comfortable conducting social interaction online through sites such as Facebook. They might not feel the need to physically travel to see their friends.<\/li>\n<li>One analyst argues that the real reason is that Americans are shopping online more because they&#8217;re more comfortable doing that now than they were in the past. Plus advances in mobile computing have made it easier than ever to shop online. Online shoppers don&#8217;t need to travel to brick-and-mortar stores.<\/li>\n<li>Increased gas prices might also have encouraged individuals to shop from home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read some statistics, and to find out one surprising retail industry that&#8217;s booming click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/driving-gas-prices-and-the-end-of-retail\/2012\/02\/18\/gIQAkAXxLR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/driving-gas-prices-and-the-end-of-retail\/2012\/02\/18\/gIQAkAXxLR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/driving-gas-prices-and-the-end-of-retail\/2012\/02\/18\/gIQAkAXxLR_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\"><em>The Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why have Americans cut back on driving in recent years? The Washington Post explored some theories: Perhaps it&#8217;s all simply due to the recession \u2013 after all out of work people don&#8217;t commute. Or perhaps it&#8217;s because an ageing population leads to a population that drives less. Conversely, perhaps the younger generation is comfortable conducting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/022212_0614_WhyArentAme1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}