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Final Note

Drivers waste $7.5 billion of gas in traffic every year

Kai Ryssdal Mar 26, 2012

This final note on the way out, which comes with the observation that crude oil closed at $107 today.

There’s a new study out from the Treasury Department that say we waste, collectively, $7.5 billion worth of gas just sitting in traffic every year.

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