These days, as we watch the devastating effects of the BP oil spill continue, everyone in car culture is looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint and take better care of our planet. Well, one report is in, and auto shipping companies are positively glowing from it!
The Department of Energy website (www.DOE.gov) released this emission data that may or may not surprise you:
One gallon of gasoline produces 19.564 lbs of carbon dioxide
Average mpg for a car or SUV is 19 mpg
One gallon of diesel produces 22.384 pounds of carbon dioxide
Average mpg for an auto transport truck is 4.7
The math comes out like this: just one of the auto shipping companies out there, shipping over 90,000 vehicles within a 12-month period of time, saved 2,926,000 gallons of fuel and thus reduced greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by 38,216,000-pounds.
We’re proud to offer a service that is useful and helps the environment.We hope this good news will remind you to consider auto shipping companies next time your car needs to travel a long distance. Every little bit helps.