Traffic congestion is estimated to have wasted 0.8 billion gallons of gasoline in the US in 1982, but it has grown and grown since then. That number peaked in 2019 at 3.6 billion gallons of wasted fuel. A rare positive of the pandemic is the downturn of car culture. Fuel waste and congestion dropped sharply in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, to a level of 1.8 billion gallons, the lowest since 1995. Unfortunately, since 2020, traffic has increased once more, and in 2022, ~3.3 billion

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