Do you try to save gas by shopping locally?

Question

Most of our food in North America is shipped great distances. The cost of fuel & pollution is added to our food bill.

Would it save fuel by supporting local growers & merchants?

Or would we just burn more gas by driving around?

Answer 1

yes I do, but I try to buy locally grown food, which also saves diesel fuel.

Answer 2

Totally! :)

My mum parks her car in the garage during winter, and doesn't drive it. She'll start it up every so often to keep it running well, and sometimes we'll drive during winter.

There's a grocery store in my neighbourhood that's only a short walk away... why drive when you could use the exercise anyways?

I'd save fuel by supporting local growers and merchants... locally grown foods are probably healthier, and saving gas from your car will save money. =)

Answer 3

We have so little of our food produced locally that it  would be a severe constraint on one's diet.

50 years ago we had a lot of our food produced here. But today that has dried up. So much has this happened that when beef exports to the USA were cut off, and farmers in Western Canada could not find a market for their beef in Canada, we in Eastern Canada were forced to pay premium prices for beef shipped in from Chicago because we simply do not have processing facilities in Eastern Canada for our local demand.

We produce pork that is well received on US markets, but we lack processing facilities, so lots of it too has to go to the USA to be processed, and shipped back. We are paying two way transportation.

Our processors for fruits and vegetables likewise have largely gone away, and the farmers who at one time supplied them have likewise folded.

We have almost no local produce coming to market... nothing that compares with demand.

I say this as a farmer who will not readily go back to producing for a local market. I would not want to get back into competition with major US suppliers of produce who have our local market all sewn up.

Answer 4

Yes and it makes sense. The store down the street charges $2.29 for a dozen eggs. the supermarket charges $1.69. I walk to the corner store. I spend a $1.25 on gas to get to the supermarket Which is cheaper.

The cheapest eggs are the $1.25 a dozen I buy on the way to work directly from the farmer.

The cheapest vegetables are out of my garden. The cheapest meat is the meat I shoot in my back yard.

The best most economical furniture is made at a shop down the street.

In the fall instead of going to a movie we make a short drive to the orchard and buy fresh fruit.

I always buy local buy American. It's good for the environment it is good for your wallet. And remember when you buy American the job you save could be your own.

In America we have laws to protect the environment. When you buy from a third world country you enable a factory to dump cart-blanch into the environment.

Answer 5

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