Why don't we just stop driving for a while to help the environment to see if it makes a difference?

Question

Why don't we just stop driving for a while to help the environment to see if it makes a difference?

Answer 1

that would be so cool!

unfortunately, so many people are so money-obsessed, not going to work for a few hours seems like a sin to them >:(

Answer 2

How about-- no food, computers, books, telephones, cell phones, ipods, can corn, fresh vegetables, meat, rice, flour, sugar, milk, cold drinks, beer, toilet paper, refrigerators, stoves, air conditioners, electrical wiring, concrete, clothes, coffee, tea, jelly, jam, fruit, orange juice------------- all transported by trucks, planes, and boats using diesel and gasoline.

AND-- even if the entire USA stopped driving the global temp variation would be so small as to be NOT-measurable!

and--

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F...

Answer 3

too many lazy people on this planet to do that.

this is coming from a 14 year old girl who has been walking to school since 7 years old, walking to go out to eat with family, to rent movies(movie rental place 8 blocks away), and walmart about 1/2 mile down the road. if i need to go anywhere else, i take the city bus which picks me up at the end of the street.

if everyone would do this, they would save money and get exercise!

Answer 4

Climate is the average of weather over a 30 year period of time.  We may have to quit driving for 30 years to see the effect on the long-term climate warming trend.

Plus, we need trucks to deliver food to our stores and many people need cars to get us to our jobs and schools.  Reducing our driving and using public transportation as much as possible is a good idea, but our civilization at it now functions needs people to drive.

Answer 5

I've never driven any more than I have to, but then I'm more of a hermit than anything else...lol

These days I don't hardly go anywhere. Lost my job thanks to my own stupid behavior (DUI), have breathalizer in pickup and it's the only thing I can drive. So now I just sit and home and rot. It was my first time and only time DUI, but I'm treated like the plague now. I get it, it was bad, but sheeeit...

Answer 6

Public transportation doesn't benefite everybody. The entire country would have to be blanketed by metro, subway, train and tram tracks for us to stop driving.

Answer 7

Oh how it should be that easy. The problems with the economy would only worsen however, unless plans were made ahead of time for a trial of no vehicles on the roads.

I wish we could though, oh how I wish.

Answer 8

Emissions from cars only make up one portion of the pollution (something like 1/3 or a half). If we all stayed home, then we'd be running our AC and heat more, watching more television, have the lights on and more energy consuming things like that. Besides, there is no way you can get enough people to commit to that to make any difference , there is simply too many different people with different needs and beliefs in this country (and world). We'd still have people that would need to be out like the police, fire dept, ambulances, truck drivers, bus drivers and so on. That is a nice sentiment, but it is not even remotely realistic, even for one day.

Answer 9

Check back when algore stops flying his plane.

Then we can talk about how you will support the families of the people who do not drive to work.

Answer 10

This happened recently, only it wasn't cars, it was airplanes, after 9-11. I don't have a link to offer, I just remember seeing  in the news some months afterwards how clear the skies were, and that some data was acquired to document this.

But such a campaign wouldn't have much effect unless it happened for an extended period over a fairly large area, say the Pacific Northwest.  Then, I believe, the effects would be noticable, and air quality would improve regionally.

But we can all make an effort to drive less, especially in light of the current price of gas at the pump!

Answer 11

i know right

finally some one who understands me

Answer 12

AMERICANS ARE LAZY I KNOW BECAUSE I AM ONE.

LUXURY LUXURY LUXURY INDULGENT INDULGENT.

MOST PEOPLE COULD NOT EVEN DARE WALK AROUND THE BLOCK. I GUESS THIS MEANS PEOPLE JUST DONT CARE ENOUGH TO IVE UP ANY LUXURYS

Answer 13

Hello! My from is Argentina.

I cannot answer because not to be spoken much English. . Good… it interests much this subject to Me, is very important.

Bye bye!

Answer 14

Totally agree :)

I like your way of thinking.

Answer 15

well, we americans are lazy and slow, so we probably won't until all gasoline powered cars are banned.

Answer 16

Because if we cut driving by a fourth, a third or, even, half, it will make no MEASURABLE difference, the warming will continue. There is no known way to remove CO2 from the Atmosphere. No way, no how, got it?

Since GW is inevitable, we would do well to keep track of the most sensitive indicators. For example, the date at which the Sierra Nevada melts, yearly records exists for at least the last ten years, The Contra Costa Times published them every year, and it happens earlier every year, yet we have not build any dams in the last ten years, perhaps this shows we don't give a dam?

Answer 17

Because that is stupid idea.

Answer 18

You go ahead and make my day.

My 2 cents.

Answer 19

because without trucks to get all those products you enjoy to the stores you drive to to buy them the worlds economy would come to a screeching halt.

why not start an annual "no driving" day?