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Even in the face of ballooning gas prices and unchecked global warming, Americans are still out there drivin' it up, almost as much as ever. For example, according to Reuters, as of 2007, 87 percent of us still drove to work every day. That's millions upon millions of cars clogging the highways and roads across the country, just spewing greenhouse gas emissions whichever way they please. We have access to buses and trains, but apparently we don't use them. Maybe it's time we Americans banded together and found some creative alternative solutions to the problem. Inspired by this notion, I whipped up a list of the 4 most offbeat (yet fully functional) ways we could all get around town.
So unbuckle your seatbelts. Here are the top 4 alternative ways to get around town:
- Roller Skate: Alright, alright. Sure it's a fad that more or less died in the eighties (except inside the confines of hokey local roller rinks that still seem to inexplicably exist across the country). But roller skating is seriously green and will publicly display your hip sense of irony.
- Scoot: Scooters could only really be considered offbeat here in the US—they're already popular in Europe. And for good reason. Some scooters' fuel efficiency are through the roof—this Piaggio Scooter gets 141 miles per gallon, for instance. And with American public opinion of scooters on the rise, maybe we'll start to see some more of these greener vehicles on our city streets. And no, riding a scooter will not threaten your masculinity—unless you install a 1940's era hand horn or refer to it as your Scootie.
- Unicycle: If this guy can unicycle his way through Manhattan then the rest of us should be able to make it around the suburbs. Sure it'll take some practice, and you risk looking like a weirdo at first—unicycling is one of those things where people who aren't all that good at it elicit scoffs from onlookers, but those that excel at it seem to impress everyone. Only one way to get there.
- Walk: Maybe you're surprised that walking rounds out the offbeat transportation list. Maybe you aren't—you wouldn't be if you happened to know what percentage of Americans walk to work every day. It's 2.5 percent. A miniscule two point five percent of people in the country walk to work. That doesn't bode well for the less definable figure of the percentage of people who walk to get around town. Give it a go. It's free. And nice. I promise. And you can freestyle walk to up your offbeat cred.
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