About 750 million passengers ride passenger and tour buses each year, compared with round 800 million passengers on airlines, according to American Bus Association spokesman Dan Ronan.
According to the American School Bus Council, the average fuel consumption for diesel-powered buses is seven miles per gallon.
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This morning, President Obama kicked off the American Jobs Act Bus Tour at Asheville Regional Airport to talk to communities about the pieces of the American Jobs Act that will put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working.
He was introduced by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, who joined the American Jobs Act Bus Tour to make an announcement as part of the Joining Forces initiative.
Tracy Ellis teaches robotics and computer classes at Bluestone High School in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, one of the stops on President Obama's American Jobs Act Bus Tour this week.
The U.S. military is reporting that two people are dead after American troops fired on a mini bus in Baghdad.
American Locker stopped selling lockers to bus stations and airports after it was sued following the 1975 explosion of a terrorist bomb that may have been left in a locker at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
As the Republicans tell it, Mr Obama has spent his presidency projecting weakness, leading from behind, apologising for America, denying American exceptionalism and throwing Israel under a bus.
They were a large extended family that, together with me and my American friend, had been riding the bus to Jerusalem where they planned to worship at the Western Wall, the Kotel.
But Northwest Airlines, which is the biggest carrier between the two countries, is holding out for full open skies, allowing American airlines to use Japan as a bus-stop to pick passengers up and fly them elsewhere.
As athletes continue to arrive in London, Coe said he was satisfied with the early stages of the Olympic operation, despite American hurdler Kerron Clement complaining that his bus got lost on the way to the Olympic village.
His family -- his mother was a maid, his father was a bus driver -- instilled in him that fundamentally American idea that through hard work, we can make of our lives what we will.
In March riots erupted in Zhushan village in Hunan after a bus fare was increased from seven yuan (about 90 American cents) to nine.
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From the windows of our crowded charter bus, Toronto seemed like any other non-descript North American city.
The Iowa Tea Party and the group American Principles in Action announced that they are launching their 18-day bus tour starting June 13.
Los Angeles is the home to one of the most enduring American dreams: Everyday, some of the best creative minds get off the bus from Anywhere, USA with dreams of becoming the next Hollywood phenom.
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Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
"You are relegating adopted parents to go to the back of the bus and wait in line if they want to adopt" a native American child, she said.
On December 1, 1955, our Nation was forever transformed when an African-American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.
AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) The American woman who was jailed for a week after Mexican authorities said they found marijuana under her bus seat said she'll return to Mexico someday.
The Iowa Tea Party invited this author to address its April 16 and July 2 rallies about gold, which, courtesy of the American Principles Project (with whom this writer is associated professionally, ) was a major theme of its bus tour.
When you're done, hop on the bus for the Scandal Tour, which takes travelers to the sites of several infamous events in American history, including the Watergate break-in, Gary Hart's tryst with Donna Rice, and Ollie North and Fawn Hall's document-shredding party.
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Given the tremendous investment made by municipalities across the country in road construction, exit ramps, turn lanes, bus routes, and traffic lights, all in support of the mall sales tax revenues, the American Mall cannot become a dinosaur and must evolve.
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