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Higher Gas Prices Means Fewer Traffic Deaths

By Matthew Sheffield | July 10, 2008 | 11:33

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Car accident The public is forever complaining about how the media are obsessed with bad news and rarely look for the good in what's going on, but sometimes doing so becomes just a little ridiculous. Such is the case with an Omaha, Nebraska TV station which managed to find some good news about higher gas prices: fewer people dying from auto accidents.

I suppose that we should be cheering gas to go to $15.00 a gallon then? After all, if it saves just one life...

Hat tip: Cureboy675

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Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and president of Dialog New Media, an internet marketing and design firm. Click here to follow Matthew Sheffield on Twitter.