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Article: You Don't Need to Own a Car to Be Worried about Escalating Fuel Prices: ACNielsen; Consumers Worldwide Worried about the Impact of Increasing Fuel Prices.
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- February 7, 2006
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NEW YORK -- Most Common Ways of Coping with Price Rises: Using One's Vehicle Less, Combining Trips and Cutting Down on Non-Essential Living Expenses
While 70 percent of Internet-users worldwide claim to have a vehicle for which they must buy fuel, an even greater number are concerned about the impact of ever-rising fuel prices. As many as 82 percent of consumers on the world's five continents claim to be feeling the hit to their wallets in a recent online survey by ACNielsen, the world's leading market research and information company. In the US, 88 percent of those surveyed claim that fuel prices are affecting them. The survey, conducted in November 2005, polled ...