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		<description><![CDATA[The share of Americans who think of cars as indispensable is high&mdash;but falling. | Do you think of cars as a &#8220;necessity?&#8221; If so, you&#8217;re not alone. In the most recent Pew &#8220;luxury vs. necessity&#8221; survey, 86 percent of Americans said that their automobile was indispensable. That&#8217;s an awful lot of people.  In fact, cars are rated as more &#8220;necessary&#8221; than pretty much any other consumer good that Pew considered. And yet, as the chart to the right shows, 86 percent is also the...]]></description>
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