Gasoline is one of the largest household expenses. How large? According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey , the average household spent $2,...

The higher the price of gas, the lower the value of houses in the suburbs, finds a study by the Brookings Institution. Every 10 percent incr...

The worst part about traffic congestion is not the stop-and-go, delays, or wasted gas, but the unpredictability of it all. If you need to be...

For the average family, there are two items in the budget over which they have little control and which also account for a large share of ho...

No matter how high gas prices climb, the 52 percent majority of Americans say they will not use mass transit as their main source of transp...

With home prices continuing to slide, a handful of Americans are finding themselves in the catbird seat, trying to decide whether to rent or...

Ask renters why they moved and "for a job" is often what you hear, according to the American Housing Survey. Twenty-five percent o...

Oh, American consumer, how we miss you! Consumer spending is falling at a 3.1 percent annual rate, according to the latest statistics from t...

Billions and billions. Public transit ridership reached an all-time high of 10.3 billion trips in 2007, according to the American Public Tra...

OK, this is bad. The rapid rise in the price of gas is turning the nation's far-flung rural and suburban areas into gasoline ghettos, lo...

Anyone who thinks the media are paying too much attention to every penny increase in the price of gasoline should take a refresher on the ra...