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Car Sharing Lowers Blood Pressure and Saves Cash
Car-Share.com Tips To Improve Your Budget & The Environment!
If you are having difficulty balancing your budget, why not
consider a car share arrangement with friends and/or colleagues,
whereby each of shares the burden of the daily commute?
Also known as "car pooling", all you need to do is get tw, three
or four people who travel the same journey to work each day and
then alternate the drivers. It doesn't have to be done daily of
course, you could for example, have one person use their car one
week and another the next.
There are numerous advantages, the biggest of which is the money
saving. In addition, we all know that commuter driving can be
extremely stressful, so not only will you save money, you'll
probably reduce your blood pressure a few notches too!
It's best if the car sharers live close to each other, so that
none of the participants are unduly inconvenienced by the
sharing arrangement, but that's down to how you want to play it
and your group's tolerance for travel!
Naturally, you need that each of the people in your car share
group are reliable, otherwise you could find yourself being late
on occasions, so it's important to set up the rules early on in
the arrangement so that there are no misunderstandings between
you.
Also, you need to ensure that you all have a means of contacting
each other for when things go wrong, as they will from time to
time, with illnesses, traffic jams etc.
In some cities, people have set up car share clubs whereby they
can contact people from other places of employment close by and
make arrangements, even contingency arrangements for when
unexpected things happen - for example, the driver is taken ill
at work and leaves you stranded at the office!
You could even promote such a scheme on a web site. A great name
for that would be car-share.com
Imagine if you could develop that into a local, regional or even
national site to help car sharer's everywhere!
The issue of environmental pollution is demanding more of our
attention as the planet warms and becomes damaged by human
excesses and the car is the worst offender.
In London for example, a city that was once renowned for being
foggy and smoky due to the fossil fuels that were burned by its
inhabitants, it's estimated by Friends of The Earth, that around
90% of current pollution is caused by cars.
Congestion in cities could be solved if just one journey per
driver per week could be eliminated.
Car sharing offers an economical and logical solution for people
who hate, or don't have easy access to public transport.
Billions of dollars are lost to business annually in most areas
of the world because of road traffic congestion.
Car parks are fast filling up and are now so over-crowded in
major cities that costs for parking have rocketed.
In summary, car sharing will:
Save you cash on fuel Lower your car insurance costs Reduce your
stress levels Improve your long term health Reduce pollution
(and could save the planet) Eliminate congestion Ease the daily
commute All things considered, there are far more reasons to car
share than there are reasons not to.
What's your excuse today?
About the author:
David Carter is a UK based article writer and owner of more than
100 web sites covering a vast array of subjects. His personal
web site can be reached at www.david-carter.com
Written by: David Carter
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