Record your total mileage for the day, where you went and the mileage to get there. Record the number of people in the car with you. DETERMINE YOUR GAS MILEAGE. ESTIMATE your total miles driven per year (you can take the current odometer reading and divide by the age of your car). DETERMINE THE TOTAL CARBON OUTPUT OF YOUR CAR for the day and for the year (Go to www.fueleconomy.gov for this number). Reflect on your fuel usage. Do you make sustainable choices? Do you try and conserve fuel usage when possible?
Today I went to Naples and it is about 25 miles to my friends house. My gas mileage was about 25 mpg. Per Year, I probably drive over 9,000 miles back and forth in between Naples and Ft. Myers. For the day, my car out puts about 10 metric units of carbon sulfer into the atmosphere according to the Thesinburg method of computing carbon output in motor vehicles. Equally, my car outputs about 3,600 tons of carbon into the atmosphere per year.
Upon reflecting on my usage of the planet's last remaining fossil fuels, I take a moment of silence and quietly shed a tear, for this planet is dying. We are raping it of its riches and throwing it back in our mothers face. No, No I do not make sustainable choices. No, I do not try and conserve fuel usage when possible. Why is this? Because in my vacuum of a planet I like to call America, there will always be more gas. USA!
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