Low Impact Week; Transportation

Transportation.

This is an area where I fear we will fail. CK drives 35 miles to work each way; MA will soon be driving 17 miles each way. HM and I already consolidate all our trips into one circle route, but still need to go out every other week. We having been working towards once a month shopping and are discussing the logistics of once a quarter shopping.

According to Casaubon’s Book (www.casaubonsbook.blogspot.com) the average American uses 500 gallons of gas per person per year. That would give our house 2000 gallons of the stuff a year. I figure MA will need 600 gallons (driving the truck); HM and I will need 300 (driving the Broco and family trips to church); CK need will need 700 gallons (driving the Cavalier). That totals 1600 gallons of gas.

Oh my goodness! I feel like Chicken Little. “The sky is falling . . . ” I know there must be a way to lower those numbers, but I don’t know where to start.

KMH