Reduce Gas The Easy Way: Try ‘Bike To Work And School’ Month

Reduce Gas The Easy Way: Try ‘Bike To Work And School' Month

Source: Wallet Pop | May 4, 2011

With gas up to a national average of $3.97 for the first week in May, it's getting hard not to panic about gas prices. The rising prices are enough to get people to do drastic things - like give up your car and switch to a bike. National Bike Month is a celebration that, coupled with the Bike to Work and School Day, has morphed into Walk and Bike to School Month. If you choose to do it for just one day, you'll find it's hardly easy, what with the typical tire-patching and helmet-finding that go along with taking an ill-used recreational bike out of storage. But after a month? You're geared up, you're in the rhythm, and you'll think to yourself, "Why not just keep going?" You'll do more than just feel proud of yourself for cutting carbon emissions. You'll save money, and that money will only increase over time. Here are a few of the ways biking to work or school for just one month could save you. [Read this article]