Prologue

Confronted with high gasoline prices and with global warming, there is a growing movement to ride clean, ride together, and ride less. Millions are improving the quality of their life and feeling better about being true to their values. Save Gas, Save the Planet brings us the stories of people reducing greenhouse gas emissions and being rewarded with better lives.

Americans drove 100 billion less miles during 2008 as they first adjusted to record summer gas prices, then a severe recession, then the discovery of better ways to travel.

Because of soaring oil prices, vehicle costs, maintenance, insurance, and parking, the American Automobile Association calculates that U.S. driver now spends $8,000 per year on each vehicle. Save Gas, Save the Planet gives readers practical strategies for making incremental changes to ride clean, ride together, and ride less.

Myths are shattered with facts. There is a myth that solutions are twenty years in the future. The fact is that every day people drive high-mileage cars, plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles, turbo diesels, biofuel and hydrogen vehicles. There is a growing abundance of new vehicle offerings.

Different people have divergent requirements that are best addressed with a variety of vehicles in combination with lifestyle improvements, flexible work, employer commute programs, sharing vehicles, driving less, and walking more.

Learn about the new trends of riding clean, riding together, and riding less in John Addison’s new book - Save Gas, Save the Planet