{"id":53908440,"date":"2006-09-16T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=53908440"},"modified":"2006-09-16T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T22:34:00","slug":"some-things-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=53908440","title":{"rendered":"Some Things To Think about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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  • In a year, a typical North American car will add
    \nclose to 5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere <\/li>\n
  • The average number of barrels of oil consumed daily
    \nin the US is 17 million <\/li>\n
  • Driving consumes 43% of those barrels of oil <\/li>\n
  • Over the last 20 years the average length of a
    \ncommute has increased 40%, miles driven has increased over 50% and time
    \nspent in traffic has increased 225% <\/li>\n
  • According to the Federal Department of Energy more
    \nthan 50% of the working population in the US lives within 5 miles of
    \nthe place they work <\/li>\n
  • Although more than 60% of all trips are 5 miles or
    \nless fewer than 1% are actually made by bicycle <\/li>\n
  • One fourth of all trips people make are one mile or
    \nless, yet three fourths of these short trips are made by car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cycling can help the environment<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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