Let's Diet Together!
O.K., now that I've got your attention, let's talk about dieting. No, I don't mean eating less saturated fats or cutting back on your 4x a week double whopper with cheese value added combo meal. I'm talking about cutting back on our carbon usage. Unless you've been living in the wilderness for the last several years, you have surely been hearing about the looming crisis around the use of petroleum products and how carbon is literally heating up our planet. You have also been paying dearly at the pump for getting from point A to point B in your vehicles of all sizes and types. Well, a carbon diet will help the planet live longer and save you money. This seems like a pretty good idea all-in-all. If not for you immediately, then certainly for your children and grandchildren.
How do you go on a carbon diet you ask? Simple! Reduce the amount of driving you do and/or RIDE YOUR BIKE more. (See I was bringing it back to motorcycling!) Take the cabon diet challenge. Make a committment to ride your bike to work at least one day per week. Heck, do better, ride it every day! Join people like Nancy Johnson, who packs up and rides her Fat Boy to work in Asheville each day. Think of the gas savings in both dollars and carbon usage that Nancy is able to contribute by riding her bike to work. Can't do it every day? No problem, just do it more than you are doing now and you'll see the savings mount up.
Join Kathy and I as we make this same committment. While I have been a regular rider of my HD to work for a long time, we're going to try and combine some more of our fun time and travel with our carbon diet. For instance, this weekend we are headed to Clinton, SC to see our niece play softball. Rather than taking the Ford Escape or the Ford F150, we're packing light and heading out on the Ultra. We should see a significant savings in gas money as the price per gallon has now climbed to $2.85 again and I KNOW that we will enjoy the pleasures of riding to the game.
What else can you do? Well, you can change the light bulbs in your home to more efficient newer types of flourescent bulbs. This can reduce your carbon usage by 1000 or more lbs. per year. Kathy and I have already made this change, as have some of our other friends, and we enjoy plenty of good light for reading and illumination. Lowes and most of the bigger retail stores sell these new bulbs in bulk now. They cost a little bit more but they last significantly longer and use less electricity so we end up saving in the long run. As with all great capitalist processes, the more people buy them, the cheaper the prices will become.
If you are at all interested in going on a carbon diet, check out this link: Reduce Your Carbon. This link will take you to a site that is part of Presidential candidate John's Edwards plan for reducing global warming.
Well, I'd better quit writing and start riding! It is time to get the Ultra headed to South Carolina! Keep the rubber side down!
--Cecil
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How do you go on a carbon diet you ask? Simple! Reduce the amount of driving you do and/or RIDE YOUR BIKE more. (See I was bringing it back to motorcycling!) Take the cabon diet challenge. Make a committment to ride your bike to work at least one day per week. Heck, do better, ride it every day! Join people like Nancy Johnson, who packs up and rides her Fat Boy to work in Asheville each day. Think of the gas savings in both dollars and carbon usage that Nancy is able to contribute by riding her bike to work. Can't do it every day? No problem, just do it more than you are doing now and you'll see the savings mount up.
Join Kathy and I as we make this same committment. While I have been a regular rider of my HD to work for a long time, we're going to try and combine some more of our fun time and travel with our carbon diet. For instance, this weekend we are headed to Clinton, SC to see our niece play softball. Rather than taking the Ford Escape or the Ford F150, we're packing light and heading out on the Ultra. We should see a significant savings in gas money as the price per gallon has now climbed to $2.85 again and I KNOW that we will enjoy the pleasures of riding to the game.
What else can you do? Well, you can change the light bulbs in your home to more efficient newer types of flourescent bulbs. This can reduce your carbon usage by 1000 or more lbs. per year. Kathy and I have already made this change, as have some of our other friends, and we enjoy plenty of good light for reading and illumination. Lowes and most of the bigger retail stores sell these new bulbs in bulk now. They cost a little bit more but they last significantly longer and use less electricity so we end up saving in the long run. As with all great capitalist processes, the more people buy them, the cheaper the prices will become.
If you are at all interested in going on a carbon diet, check out this link: Reduce Your Carbon. This link will take you to a site that is part of Presidential candidate John's Edwards plan for reducing global warming.
Well, I'd better quit writing and start riding! It is time to get the Ultra headed to South Carolina! Keep the rubber side down!
--Cecil
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