Abstract
The poor comprise 18% of all households and have 9% of the cars. American households use about 60 billion gallons of gasoline in 1972--1973. Poor households who own a car at all drive much more sparingly than others and chiefly for necessary trips. The general model of the car people drive is similar. Car choices are not substantially different among broad income groups. Since poor households have a car mainly to get to their jobs, gasoline shortages and sharply rising gasoline prices could rob the working poor of needed pay and their employers of needed help if cars have no gasoline. The practice of the poor commuting to work by car and the location of their jobs are discussed. Their household characteristics are briefly summarized. (MCW)
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