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Fact: Every gallon of gasoline a car burns emits roughly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

 

Fact: Passenger cars account for 35 percent of the greenhouse gases emitted fro transportation; light trucks an additional 27 percent.

 

With the holidays on the rise, there is sure to be some serious traveling, be it via car, plane or other mode of transportation. What DrivingGreen.com wants you to know is, if you’re so environmentally conscious to do so, is offset greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by calculating the total pounds of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), the most prevalent greenhouse gas, that their particular vehicle, flight or event emits and its equivalent.

 

Consumers then pay that dollar amount to DrivingGreen.com which provides it to selected farmers to help fund equipment that convert animal waste into renewable energy -- energy that can keep producing indefinitely without being depleted.

 

“We recognize that people will always need to drive, fly and have functions and that it is increasingly challenging to be environmentally responsible," explains DrivingGreen.com Director, Dan Linsky in a statement. "By providing a simple and inexpensive way for people to offset the damage they can't help doing to the environment, everyone can do their part to reduce the magnitude of global warming."

 

Consumers who offset their emissions receive a serial number that can be used to track their own reduced emissions and the successes of the agricultural projects to which their individual carbon footprint are reduced.