everyone into the biking lane!

I ride my bike when I can but man, I do love my car. I've been trying to drive less, which gets easier as the weather gets warmer and the days are longer. I found these interesting facts that help explain why a bike is the most energy efficient vehicle ever. Here are some highlights:

- Every mile traveled by bike rather than car keeps one pound of climate-damaging carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, while reducing cash draining stops at the pump.

-If Americans replaced just one in five of their average length car trips by bicycling, each driver would spare the atmosphere more than one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Collectively, the effect would be comparable to taking 48 million drivers off the road.

-Short trips are easiest to replace with a bike trip. Mile for mile they are the most polluting.

Check out the original website, it has some awesome facts regarding sustainable livin'.