Replacing the Green Cruiser Helps Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
What is my carbon footprint?
Answer: Your carbon footprint is how much carbon dioxide that you and your life style contribute into the atmosphere calculated on a per year basis. To calculate your carbon footprint Click Here.
- Driving cars is one of the largest contributing factors of putting carbon dioxide and other green house gases into the atmosphere.
- This proves to be a challenge as most of need to drive at least somewhat, but reducing the time that we spend in automobiles gives us one of the best ways to reduce our carbon footprints.
Replace 25% of your driving and reduce the amount of CO2 by over 3200 lbs. (1.6 tons) per year!
- Calculations based upon the averages of 15,000 miles driven each year by individuals in the United States with an average fuel economy of 22.4 miles per gallon.
In this day and age it is time when each and every one of us needs to start and look into the mirror and think about the small ways that we can all help protect our planet. The climate change that is occurring is melting our polar ice caps leading to the threatening of several species survival. Unknown consequences are also looming as the planet has never gone through a period of man-made climate change. Such consequences could include but are limited to more extreme weather, loss of coastal property as sea levels rise, the extinction of many species of animal and plant life that all contribute to the diversity and beauty of this planet along with being the sources of potential cures for diseases that affect all mankind. No matter how “green” we may live, we all contribute in putting green house gases into the atmosphere. We have an inherit responsibility to our children and grand children to leave them a beautiful planet and using the Green Cruiser to replace some of your driving is one of many ways that goal can be achieved.
** Sources: Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.