Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for May 25, 2018
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May 25, 2018: The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimates that 41.5 million Americans will travel during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.[1] That figure includes 36.6 million who are traveling by car.
Those drivers will pay an average of $2.93 per gallon for gas, the highest prices since 2014. However, that's far below the peak of $4.11 reached in 2008.
An earlier Number of the Day highlighted the reason that gas prices have fallen so much in the past decade: the development of American shale oil resources doubled U.S. oil production between 2008 and 2015. After decades of dependence upon foreign oil, fracking technology has put the United States on track to become a net exporter of energy within four years.
Regardless of the cost of oil, most Americans (53%) expect Memorial Day traffic will look much different within a decade as self-driving cars become common.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- May 24, 2018 – 150 billion dollars spent annually on illegal sports betting
- May 23, 2018 – 49 percent of American adults say home broadband service is essential
- May 22, 2018 – 18 percent of Americans discuss politics and government daily
- May 21, 2018 – 53 percent of American adults expect driverless cars to be common within a decade
- May 18, 2018 – 72 percent of Americans favored anti-lynching law in 1937
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