Public's use of automobiles and attitudes toward three gasoline allocation options. [Telephone survey]

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1974

OSTI ID:6763664

A survey was taken to determine automobile usage habits of a projectable sample of American drivers and to ascertain attitudes toward alternative methods of gasoline allocation. Findings are based on 1,013 telephone interviews among a national probability sample of licensed drivers age 18 and over. Interviewing was conducted during the period December 18 to 21, 1973. Respondents were asked to state their favorability toward and preference for three alternate gasoline restriction mechanisms at three different times during the interview. The options included: (1) a substantial increase in the price of gasoline; (2) ration stamps to purchase gasoline; and (3) drivers prohibited from using their cars two or three days a week. Rationing of gasoline through a coupon system is clearly the most preferred and least opposed method of restricting automobile fuel consumption. The survey also showed that the privately owned automobile is so much a part of American life that the public finds it difficult to conceive of alternate means of transportation if driving is restricted significantly.

• Research Organization: National Energy Information Center, Washington, D.C. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6763664
• Report Number(s): FEA/D-76/112
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ALLOCATIONS
AUTOMOBILES
AUTOMOTIVE FUELS
COST
FUELS
GASOLINE
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PUBLIC OPINION
REGULATIONS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
VEHICLES