Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by scythe 1409 days ago
>gaz consumption for the average household has gone up, not down.

Historical data shows that overall gas consumption is more strongly linked to the frequency of highway travel than to recent changes in car purchases. See:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188448/total-us-domestic...

There's a drop during the Great Recession, a rapid rise during the recovery, and a roughly flat line during the Trump administration until another crater during the COVID pandemic.