At the time of writing this the oil price is approx $144USD/Barrel – fantastic I hear you say, and really its risen over 50% in 1 year, great if you trade commodities such as oil/energy, but if you are like the rest of us its becoming a little bit tougher on everything as food and crude oil rise, it unfortunately gets passed onto the consumer therefore leaving us with less disposable income as you are all too well aware.

If we go back in time to a life a lot less hectic, one without cell phones, TV’s and cars even, then we will remember why cars were invented in the first place. As reliable as they are horses formed the most efficient form of transportation, and they were only replaced because horses created too much excreta on the roads.

So we have thought of ways that we can really chop down on using the car, and there are lots of different ways,

1. Use another form of transport – bus, train etc
2. Look at a smaller more fuel efficient car especially around town, turbo charged cars around town are expensive.
3. Buy a hybrid car which uses electric engines and still run on petrol also – Toyota and Honda make these.
4. Walk, run or bike great way to stay fit
5. Take your child out for a walk in their buggy

The future for using our own petrol powered cars is becoming a lot more unsustainable, and so finding out other ways to create a lot less carbon emissions is really a hot topic at the moment and will be for a time yet, we still haven’t gotten it right if we ever will but hopefully our children won’t have to be pulled around by

- Scott

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