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Poll result: Many Richmond News readers combining trips to save on gas

Many Richmond News readers' driving habits have changed due to the soaring gas prices
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It seems like the crazy gas prices are changing the daily and weekly habits of many of us.

Richmond News polled 251 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Have the soaring gas prices changed your daily or weekly movements?

The poll ran from 10/6/2022 to 10/12/2022. Of the 251 votes, we can determine that 81 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, I'm combining errands to save on gas 41.98 % local, 44.22 % total    
Somewhat 19.75 % local, 26.69 % total    
Not at all 38.27 % local, 29.08 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 6.18%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.