Bikes Save Money
a. Cars use an average of 21 MPG.*
b. The average person drives 33 miles per day.*
c. That's about 1.57 gallons of gas per day per person.
d. The average cost of gas in 2013 was $3.34 a gallon.**
e. That means that it cost the average person $5.24 a day just for gas.
f. $36.70 a week.
g. $1,908.74 a year.
Bikes Conserve Fossil Fuels
a. The average person uses 1.57 gallons of gasoline a day.
b. That comes to 10.99 gallons a week.
c. 571.48 gallons a year.
Bikes Protect The Air
a. The average car creates about 0.933 pounds of CO2 per day.*
b. If someone drives 1.57 miles per day, they create 30.8 pounds of CO2 per year.
c. That comes to 215.5 pounds per week.
d. 5.1 tons per year.
* US EPA Fact Sheet. "Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle, December, 2011
** www.gasbuddy.com
The amount of CO2 released by human per day by exhaling is 0.9 kg/day or roughly 2 lbs per day which is twice that of what an average car produces per day. Plants love CO2.
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