But AAA's annual Your Driving Costs study, published in early April, figures that the average cost of driving a new passenger car is 56.2 cents, up 4.5 cents over the 2003 calculation of 51.7 cents.
The cost of driving could soon be beyond the reach of 19-year-old Hazel Bond.
Among voters' worries, the cost of driving easily eclipsed the war in Iraq, unemployment, health care or terrorism.
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"The high cost of driving and an ageing population is also making local shopping much more attractive, " Ms Hinton said.
That makes gassing up just 29% of the total cost of driving.
In the U.S., anti-car work is mostly the province of bike activists, but as the true cost of driving increases, that could change.
Nor does it include the cost of driving poor people (whose limited assets and irregular financial transactions make them particularly costly to service) out of the banking system.
Yes, it costs money to develop these vehicles, but even as the price to build these cars and trucks goes up, the cost of driving these vehicles will go down, as drivers save money at the pump.
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He contends that revenue visibility is improve, with U.S. and China capital spending growing, and Europe likely bottoming in the first half of 2012, and cost cutting driving margin and cash flow improvements, the time is now to get more bullish.
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But I've also seen unions re-training workers to build energy- efficient buildings, innovators designing cars that run on fuel cells and biofuels and electricity, cars that get more miles per gallon than ever before, cars that will cut the cost of driving, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and fight global warming.
While driving cost leadership as a discipline, we were also taking profits and cash and plowing it back in the company, all in the name of growth for the clients.
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Driving cost reductions must be the explicit purpose and primary design of deployment policies and achieving consistent reductions in the unsubsidized cost of clean energy technologies must be the metric that rationalizes deployment investments.
This is why Singapore, which wants motorists to be aware of the social cost of their driving, has deliberately designed a device that lights up with the amount being deducted from the driver's pre-paid card each time the vehicle passes an electronic toll gantry.
The rising cost of gasoline is driving interest in biofuel production, in which Abengoa is a leader.
"TV manufacturers strongly believe in 3D and are driving its cost downward, but its value to consumers relies strongly on the availability of quality material to watch, " Gray concluded.
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As Fallows pointed out ages ago, the military hangs all sorts of gadgets and capabilities on new programs, driving up cost and complexity, delaying completion and increasing the maintenance costs.
From the beginning the challenge was coming up with an inexpensive catalyst that could be reused in the reactor, driving the cost of the process below the market price of gas.
The top prize at the fair went to 19-year-old Ionut Budisteanu of Romania, who used "artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car, " according to an Intel statement.
Yes, but the fuel-savings will more than match that cost within one year of driving.
These kinds of efficiencies are driving down the cost of solar thermal, said Woolard.
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Finally, the rising cost of advanced weapons is driving both to seek defence savings.
The critical shortage of technically skilled people has been driving up the cost of projects and resources.
Proponents say driving up the cost of coal generation will push utilities to seek out cleaner alternatives.
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And the tax means that medical devices will be more expensive, driving up health cost even further.
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Each has succeeded at driving down the cost of measurement and making it fun by creating communities of self-trackers.
Salary restraints prevent free-spending owners from driving up the cost of talent.
Meanwhile, the defect keeps showing up in other vehicles, driving up the cost of GM's warranty claims and potentially putting drivers at risk.
It is this cost imperative that is largely driving the move to create significantly larger wind turbines and blades with far greater wing spans.
Unfortunately the unintended-but-foreseeable consequences of this modest proposal included driving up the cost of debt for the very nations that it meant to (potentially) save.
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