CreditCards.com Poll: More than Half of Americans Have Cut Back on Visiting Family, Friends Because of High Gas Prices.AUSTIN, Texas -- A national poll released today shows that more than half of American drivers are curbing visits to friends and family due to rising gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by costs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the poll, conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. and Media for CreditCards.com, the leading online source for consumer credit card information, four out of five Americans said that the gas crisis has caused them to cut back their driving in some way. The CreditCards.com poll found that 53 percent of Americans have decreased driving to visit friends or family; 66 percent think twice before going on a pleasure drive; 54 percent have cut back on driving to vacation destinations and 56 percent of drivers are running fewer errands than usual. One in four people say gas prices are forcing them to curtail cur·tail tr.v. cur·tailed, cur·tail·ing, cur·tails To cut short or reduce. See Synonyms at shorten. [Middle English curtailen, to restrict driving to work. "We're seeing a social change emerging from the economic constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. of high fuel costs," said Ben Woolsey, Director of Marketing and Consumer Research for CreditCards.com. "Restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). driving habits is more than a personal finance issue. It is affecting the American lifestyle: less extracurricular activities for the kids, more planning of daily errands and fewer leisurely drives to enjoy the day or to getaway for the weekend." In addition, the CreditCards.com poll also found: * Residents of the South (58 percent) are more likely than people from other regions to say gas prices have caused them to cut back on visits to family members and friends. * Older adults are least likely to give up visits to family members and friends because of gas prices. Only 44 percent of people 65 and older say they cut back on these outings because of gas prices. Nearly 59 percent of people 18 to 34 years old and 57 percent of those 35 to 49 years old say they have cut back on family and friend visits. * The groups reporting the most cutbacks on family vacations are those earning $30,000 to $49,900 a year, young adults and those living in the South. * Americans with lower household incomes (under $30,000) are more likely to say they are cutting down on their drive to work, compared to their higher income counterparts. * Younger adults (ages 18 to 34) have cut back on driving to work more than any of their older counterparts. * People living in the Northeast were least likely to say they have cut back on driving due to gas prices. The poll's full results can be found online at: www.CreditCards.com/credit-card-news/gas-card-price-poll-1277.php Poll Methodology The survey was conducted from May 16-18, 2008, by GfK Custom Research North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. on behalf of CreditCards.com, via random digit dialing Random digit dialing (RDD) is a method for selecting people for involvement in telephone statistical surveys by generating telephone numbers at random. Random digit dialing has the advantage that it includes unlisted numbers that would be missed if the numbers were selected from a phone interviews with 1,004 interview subjects. Interviewees were approximately split between males and females ages 18 and over, with 523 females and 481 males surveyed. The raw data was then weighted by a custom designed computer program that automatically developed a weighting factor for each respondent In Equity practice, the party who answers a bill or other proceeding in equity. The party against whom an appeal or motion, an application for a court order, is instituted and who is required to answer in order to protect his or her interests. , employing five variables: age, sex, education, race and geographic region. The total margin of error on weighted data for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. CreditCards.com CreditCards.com is a leading online credit card marketplace, bringing consumers and credit card issuers together. At its free Web site, consumers can compare hundreds of credit card offers from the nation's leading issuers and banks and apply securely online. CreditCards.com is also a destination site for consumers wanting to learn more about credit cards, offering advice, news, features, statistics and tools - all designed to help consumers make smart choices about credit cards. In 2007, more than 12 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. used CreditCards.com to search for their next credit card. Ben Woolsey Ben Woolsey is director of marketing and consumer research for CreditCards.com and offers his perspective gained from a 20-year financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. career, which involved the design of reward programs and the marketing of consumer and business credit cards for several of the nation's largest issuers. |
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