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A little planning goes a long way. Combining errands into one trip can save you time, gas money, and car maintenance in the long run.

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About the Numbers:

How much energy could you save by going car-free all month? 

• If you do this for one month: 40 pounds CO₂
• If you do this for one year: 480 pounds CO₂

If everyone in Corvallis did this for a year we would save 120,00 metric tons of CO₂, which is equivalent to:

• Annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2,500 passenger vehicles.  
• CO₂ emissions from the electricity use of 1,796 homes for one year. 
• Carbon sequestered by 307,692 tree seedlings grown for 10 years. 
• Greenhouse gas emissions avoided by recycling 4,494 tons of waste instead of sending it to the landfill.

* According to EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator. 

Here is how we calculated that: 

To estimate how much energy you could save by combining errands, let’s assume you eliminate driving 50 miles a month. We’ll also assume that your car gets 22 miles per gallon (mpg). (If you do this action for the Take Charge program and tell us how it went at the end of the month, we’ll ask you how many mpg your car actually gets to give you a better estimate of how much energy you saved.)

• Calculating gallons of gas: If you avoid driving 50 miles this month, you would save about 2 gallons of gas per month (40 miles per month / 22 miles per gallon of gas = 2 gallon of gas per month).

• Calculating pounds (lbs) of CO₂: About 19.8 lbs of CO₂ are emitted for every gallon of gas you use, so you would save 40 lbs of CO₂ a month (2 gallon of gas a month x 19.8 lbs CO₂ per gallon= 39.6 lbs CO₂ saved a month, which we’ll round to 40 lbs).