John-Francis Bourke/Getty Images
READ MORE ABOUT:
Driving your kids to school can siphon even more gas out of your tank than your commute to work. Why? If your kids don’t have their own wheels yet, you may be making the roundtrip journey to school twice a day.
When attending grade school in Houston, my school happened to be on the other side of the city. There were others in my neighborhood who also attended that same school, and so my parents organized a carpool. There were four of us kids in the carpool, and so a different student’s parent would each have one set day a week to drive us to school. Friday was sort of a flexible day since there were only four drivers and 5 weekdays, and so once a month, a parent would drive both their normally scheduled day plus that Friday.
This was in the 80s, so it wasn’t as much about the gas prices or global warming as it was about our parents freeing up time for themselves. Each parent was able to reduce their trips to school from about 40 (twice each weekday) to about 10.
We certainly had our favorite and our least favorite drivers and that would set the tone for the journey.
I didn’t put much thought into the environmental impact at the time, but looking back, I can certainly give my parents some green extra credit.
This post was inspired by Wa$ted.
-
- {}
