Walk or Ride Your Bike to Work

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I know that this isn’t feasible for a lot of people who just live too far from where they work, but if even 10% of the work force could do this, it would have 2 really big effects- lower demand for gas (and thus prices) and work off a few calories a the same time. As crazy as it sounds, the (human) weight gain problem in America has a real effect on the amount of oil we use. Plus a little exercise would do us all good!

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…if you figured out how to get to work one day a week without your car (or worked from home) you could save much more. You’d also have a real impact on demand, and therefore, on prices. Assuming you drive 30 miles round-trip to work, in three months you would save 19.5 gallons (at 20 mpg). Based on the latest weekly average pump price of $3.72 a gallon, that adds up to more than $72. At $4 a gallon, you’d save $78.

Riding your bike to work would help in two ways: Your car would burn less gas, and you’d lose weight. Americans are now pumping an extra 938 million gallons a year because of the added weight gained by the average driver since 1960, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Virginia Commonwealth University.) From MSNBC