Don’t drive is their advice. Instead walk, use a bicycle or stay home and just eat and sleep. Stop going to your job. Eat cold food and drink only water. Cooking requires heat which increases the carbon footprint but the effects on the planet from working, cooking and driving have been so minimal that the environmentalists have trouble proving their case. Cars have such effective cleaners on the exhaust system that the exhaust from burning gasoline is really clean. When’s the last time you saw a smoking car? Average speeds in Los Angeles are 48 percent higher because there’s so much less traffic on the roads. In Seattle on the I-5 corridor, heading north-south into and out of downtown Seatle, traffic on March 18 was moving at speeds 100 percent faster than typical during the morning and afternoon commutes. Speeds on the highways surrounding New York City were more than 50 percent higher during the morning commute, and nearly 60 percent higher in the evening commute, than the average of same-day-of-week trips during the past three or four months. People are living better and getting more done because of the higher vehicle speeds.
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