Sarah Stefanson writes for driversense.com and an article of hers was featured on the homepage for Yahoo Canada on September 1. As it was about driving and the environment, I gave it a read (I click on about one in fifty of the featured articles, I guess).
She does give some good tips for conserving gas while driving but I really see no honest effort to be eco-friendly.
She seems to be missing an important point about how vehicle-use consumes energy, looking at the problem in the most simplistic and car-friendly way possible. That point is, the energy it takes to drive any car anywhere is more than matched by the energy needed to produce that car and probably not far off the energy needed to make and maintain the roads and infrastructure necessary for driving.
One suggestion is too keep the trunk clear and not carry too much extra weight. She should follow that thought through and consider the absurdity of using a one tonne vehicle to transport a ninety kilo person (that’s me, by the way, not her).
When I return to Canada, I will likely have to buy a car. Things are pretty spread out there, unlike my situation in Korea.
To be honest, I will likely even drive frivolously on occasion, so maybe a few of her suggestions have merit. However, her attitude is more irritating than than her supposed eco-friendliness.
“I love my car. I love it on days when I drive past pedestrians walking through rain, sleet and snow. I love it because it lets me sleep in an extra half hour every morning since I don't have to catch a bus.”
What a jerk. Those poor bastards, doing their part to protect the environment or too poor to own a car; I love driving past them and laughing.
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I don't think driving habits will change until governments start to really crack down and make laws. They should be making driving very inconvenient by taking designating more road lanes for public transportation and bicycles.
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