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Cas Sharing Reduces Blood Pressure and Saves Cash
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: 13 March 2008 16:15 |
by: David Carter
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 doesnt 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, youll probably reduce your blood pressure a few notches too!
Its best if the car sharers live close to each other, so that none of the participants are unduly inconvenienced by the sharing arrangement, but thats down to how you want to play it and your groups 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 its 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!
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, its 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 dont 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.
Whats your excuse today?
About The Author
David Carter is a UK based article writer and publisher of more than 100 web sites covering a vast array of subject matters. His personal web site can be reached at http://www.david-carter.com.
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