Everyone knows that carpooling is fuel effecient, cost effective, and environmentally friendly. But do you know just how effective it is?
-In the United States, a car is driven about 12,000 miles a year.
-In the United States, it costs about 57 cents to travel one mile.
-This means Driving costs about (.57*12,000) $6,840 per year. Drivers that use smoothride.com have potential to save even more than that by picking up multiple passengers at once.
-The world uses 85 million barrels of oil a day.
-In other words, the world uses over 30 billion barrels of oil a year. This is the same amount of oil that would have been wasted if the gulf incident happened 6331 times each year.