Thank you to the many who have alerted me to Barack Obama’s suggestion that drivers should inflate their tires. If you haven’t followed this story, the right has tried to mock this suggestion by distributing tire pressure gauges. This piece of political theatre comes just as we here at 4GreenTires.org are trying to get to the bottom of the mathmatics behind this kind of savings. We’ll keep you posted.
Thank you, Mr. Obama for making drivers realize this is important - and thank you Mr. McCain for further publicising it.
If you’ve seen the movie Cannonball Run, the real life Gumball 2000 and offroad rallies you know that rallies are not usually very kind to the earth.
Enter CarbonRally, a site that poses friendly carbon-reducing challenges to its visitors. Most interesting to us, is this New York Times article about how cars’ tires can play an important role in carbon emission reduction:
For instance, keeping tires properly inflated on an average car that travels 12,000 miles a year will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 29.1 pounds a month.
The site offers an extensive explanation for its calculations. What leapt out at me was a statistic: a car with properly inflated tires will use 1.5 gallons less gas monthly.
That came out to $83.16 a year — or more, if gas prices rise. We needed a family team.
Here’s to another vote for doing this simple act to help reduce carbon emissions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/fashion/17Cyber.html?scp=1&sq=carbonrally&st=cse
4GreenTires will conduct complimentary tire pressure inflation on Tuesday, July 22.
If you would like to have your tires checked, simply fill out the form below.
Note: The hardest questions are near the end, when we’ll ask for your license plate and your car’s recommended front and rear tire pressure. (Note: This is not the number stamped into the side of your car’s tires.)
Where is my car’s recommended
tire pressure information located?
You’ll want to have this information on hand before you start filling out this form.
Why are you making me
provide this information?
Starting several days ago, our site has been swamped with requests for gauges — with a new request every 45 seconds or so. This is an unusual load of requests and we are currently checking the validity of these submissions and have temporarily suspended the request line.
Standby for more news!
You might have to read it yourself to believe it, but UPS traffic managers have determined that waiting for left turns is a waste of time, gas, and consequently, money too.
As a result, they have re-routed their brown trucks to favor right hand turns instead. Crazy, but apparently, it works.
Fewer Left Turns for UPS
Someplace there must be a very active Nitrogen Advocacy Association because only a coordinated effort could be so successful at duping unsuspecting drivers into paying for gas that’s nearly identical to the air we breathe for free.
I’m talking about the emerging practice of selling nitrogen for use in passenger tires on the premise that it protects the tire and doesn’t leak as readily. (We’ve discussed this once before.) The consensus is that nitrogen is not worth paying for. Why? Regular old air is about 70% nitrogen and since tire installers are only topping up tires with nitrogen (as opposed to completely deflating it of its ambient air first), only a rodent living inside your tire would notice the difference. Conclusion: Save the $20!
That’s the motto of WeAddUp.com, an organization that gently reminds us regular people of the little things they can do to help the planet. And one of those “somethings” that people can do? Inflate their tires!
Take a moment and head over to their website and see if you’re willing to commit to a little harmless conservation.
I just learned that 4GreenTires is a runner up for Keen Footwear’s Stand For contest! We are so excited!
See the press release and the submission.
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First they brought us the air bag, now the Scandanavians bring us techniques to preserve the bag of air that we live in though “Eco-Driving.” Simply defined, Ecodriving “describes techniques that drivers can use to optimize their automobile fuel economy.” And in order to get your drivers license in Scandanavia, you need to demonstrate these skills.
No surprise then, that tire pressure is part of the Golden Rules of EcoDriving
Check out the article in the Canadian Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080215.A2ECODRIVING15/TPStory/TPInternational/Europe/
