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Transportation

  • Purchase a more fuel-efficient car. Every mile per gallon gained reduces your carbon emission by one pound.
    If you’re planning on buying a new car, consider a hybrid. You could conserve more than 20 gallons of gasoline per month! A 50-mile trip in a hybrid vehicle will use roughly one gallon of gasoline, whereas the same trip in a standard vehicle may use more than twice the amount of gas.
  • When renting a car, don’t forget a hybrid. A hybrid can go three times as far as a standard sedan on a single tank of gas.
  • Purchase a used car, which would save millions in steel production annually (i.e. the steel used in the production of new cars each year).
  • Stick with lower octane fuel unless your owner’s manual specifically recommends it. Higher octane fuels do not improve your engine’s power, fuel efficiency or performance of your vehicle. If all drivers purchased lower-octane fuels, we’d save 3 billion dollars a year!
  • Have your oil changed with re-refined motor oil. To produce 5 quarts of re-refined oil requires only two gallons of used oil, but producing and refining five quarts of regular (virgin oil) requires two barrels of crude!
  • Consider re-tread when you’re in the market for tires. They are equal in both safety and performance to new tires but require only one third of the petroleum resources needed to produce new tires.
  • Keeping your tires properly inflated could improve your gas mileage as much as 3 percent. It also makes your tires last longer.
  • Walk or bike and produce zero carbon emissions!
  • Take public transportation. People spend an average of 36 hours per year in traffic delays!
  • If you’re in the market for a motor home, consider one that you can tow behind a vehicle (vs. one you drive). On average, a motor home will get seven to eight miles per gallon, but a truck (towing a motor home) can achieve fourteen to fifteen miles per gallon.
  • If your vehicle has a diesel engine, consider using bio-diesel. Not only is bio-diesel more efficient, it’s bio-degradable, renewable and contains far fewer pollutants than other fuels.
  • Work from home whenever possible. Over forty million people do this now, preventing more than 35 million vehicle miles per year.
  • Carpool! If the average commuter carpooled every day, he or she would save over 500 gallons of gasoline per year.
  • Share a taxi ride from the hotel to the airport. It saves money, traffic congestion and gas!
  • Limit the amount of time you let your car’s engine run idle. A car on idle emits twenty times more pollution than one traveling approximately 30 miles per hour.