Like a lot of people, I'm often running late. One of our two cars--a five-year-old Honda Civic Hybrid--has a digital readout showing fuel economy. Because I travel so much (ironically hopping on a plane or driving hours to lecture about energy savings or green building), I get lots of opportunity to track my mileage.
Rarely a day goes by that I don't hear people complaining about how much money they're spending on gasoline. Indeed, filling up costs three times what it did just a couple years ago; it's understandable that people are upset.
So how can we reduce our costs of getting around? This week, I'll address the best strategy--driving less. Next week, we'll look at how to get better mileage from our cars.
Some recommendations:
Rarely a day goes by that I don't hear people complaining about how much money they're spending on gasoline. Indeed, filling up costs three times what it did just a couple years ago; it's understandable that people are upset.
So how can we reduce our costs of getting around? This week, I'll address the best strategy--driving less. Next week, we'll look at how to get better mileage from our cars.
Some recommendations:
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Is it anything like them green conferences?
I have a little treat for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 users: the BuildingGreen.com Search Plugin. With the plugin installed, you can search BuildingGreen.com directly from the search bar in the top right corner of your browser. In the course of a day, I often have to reference a few case studies. The search plugin allows me to get to the case study I need almost immediately. Same goes for an article, green topic, product, etc.
Let us conservatively say that a Prius goes 40 miles on a gallon of gasoline. After taking into account the 20 lbs CO2 released by burning a gallon of gasoline, 40mpg amounts to two miles per pound of CO2 emission.