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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/06-cost-of-gas-082412.jpg474288The big lesson in the decade-long flat-lining of gasoline consumption in the Northwest: prices matter. When prices were low, we used more and more gas each year. But as fuel prices rose, our consumption first stabilized, and then began to fall. The inflection point happened in 1999---when the price of gasoline started to drift upwards, after about a decade of low and stable prices.