The recent hike in gasoline prices is indeed a cause of concern and going by reports from various sources such as the internet and electronic media, the day might not be very far away when the world would have exhausted its entire reserves of crude oil and gas. Under such circumstances, we need to find alternate sources of energy such as windmill, electric cars, or hybrid sources of energy. While all this is fine and laudable, this is not going to happen tomorrow or even in the next few years. Under such circumstances, we need to devise ways and means by which we can save on scarce crude oil reserves.
One the most common and practical method that we can adopt is resorting to carpooling. It really can save huge amount of petrol and gasoline consumption. Though it may not be practically possible to carpool on all the 5 days of work, as a responsible citizen we can at least make a beginning by going in for this mode of transportation once a week. This itself would lead to significant amount of savings over a period of time.
In fact apart from saving on gasoline and money, there are other intangible benefits which can be derived from carpooling. The first such intangible benefit is saving on time. We can use the carpooling lanes and by this we can avoid a significant amount of peak hour traffic and cut down on traveling time. Carpooling also helps making new friends and improves on your socializing skills. These could come in very handy if you are trying out some new business activity or could simply help you to better network with a lot of people.
