Let me ask you a question. What if the entire world was forced to get off the roads, no driving whatsoever for an entire week? How about an entire month? What would that do to the world. Well, I don't know about you, but I know that as a poor college kid with no income, I would be saving a lot of money!
Gas pollution takes up 33% of our country's overall carbon dioxide emissions! 33%! That means, that each day we as Americans are continually making the air we breathe dirty and disgusting to be living in. Our main source of survival, other than water, which by the way, we are polluting in other ways, is being compromised because our generation runs no, not necessarily on Dunkin, but GAS!
Did you know that from the year 1999 to the year 2005 alone, that is just 5 years, the price of gas went up from 1.13 to 2.26. Not to mention, that today, on the East Coast, gas goes for around 4 dollars average. That is a 1.84 increase since 2005 alone! Now tell me this, if a 2001 BMW gets 20 miles to the gallon, you do the math. It takes a lot to fill up that tank of gas, and I'm not talking about the physical efforts of pumping your own gas, which if you're from Jersey like I am, you don't have to do it anyway!
What I am getting at here is, what if the government forced the entire nation to go for one week without using a motorized vehicle. Sure, people couldn't commute to work, couldn't pick up their venti lattes in the morning at their corner Starbucks twenty minutes away unless they walked, etc. etc. Think about it! If we did this for one week a month, or better yet, one month per year, think of the amount of pollution we could help cancel out. And what if the entire world did this?
Everyone likes to start trends. Why not start one that helps the planet? Better yet, start a revolution. A Stop-the-Guzzling Revolution. A revolution that could help our air, and even more, help ourselves.
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