GREEN TRANSPORTATION

Using public transportation is certainly an excellent method of going green when it comes to transportation. Not only does it lead to reduced emissions but it allows you to relax while traveling and all but eliminates your exposure to road rage.

Some interesting transportation facts:

• 14 million: Americans that take public transportation daily.
  
• 40 percent: Reduction in U.S. reliance on foreign oil that would occur if one in ten Americans used public transportation daily.
  
• 79: Number of times safer that riding a bus is over riding in your own automobile.
  
  
• 855: Millions of gallons saved (equal to 45 million barrels of oil) from people taking public transportation each year. This is roughly the energy needed to power ¼ of all American homes annually.
  
  
• 6,000: Difference in pounds of global warming pollution that a diesel school bus emits over a natural gas school bus.
  
  
• 20 percent: Carbon monoxide emissions saved if one in five Americans rode public transportation daily; the savings would be greater than the combined emissions from all chemical manufacturing and metal processing industries.
  
  

Sources: American Public Transportation Association, Center for Transportation Excellence, National Resources Defense Council