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Decrease Your Carbon Footprint by Smog Testing
Is your car emitting gray-colored smoke from its exhaust pipe? Want to do your part in helping save the environment from global warming? Did you know that cars and other motorized vehicles play a huge role in adding to the world’s carbon emissions? How can smog testing help save the environment?
I was in college when I first learned about carbon footprints. My professor in Natural Science gave us all an assignment that we were supposed to complete in a span of a week. We were to list down all our daily activities and compute for the amount of energy we expend in order to accomplish our various everyday tasks. She also gave us a table so we could calculate the amount of greenhouse gases or carbon emissions we launch into the environment every time we use a certain appliance or device.
What my carbon footprint showed about me greatly surprised me. I was living “large” enough for three grown-up people – that’s how wasteful I was in using energy. And the activity that topped the list when it came to expending carbon emissions: driving.
Smog from cars and other motorized vehicles take up 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. That puts motor transportation on the list of leading causes for global warming. I knew this statistic way before I did my carbon footprint assignment, but seeing and knowing firsthand what my share in it was, I decided to change my lifestyle to a more environmentally-friendly one.
What did I do to decrease my carbon footprint and carbon emissions caused by driving?
I began to walk more. As long as my destination could be reached on foot in twenty minutes, I would walk it. The practice not only decreased my carbon footprint but it made me healthier as well. Plus, I saved money I would have normally spent on gas!
I bought myself a bike. That way, if I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to walk, I could ride a bike to my destination. This was a lot quicker than taking the bus and a lot more convenient than trying to get a seat in an overcrowded train.
Finally, I took my car for a smog inspection. Smog inspections calculate the amount, as well as the type, of pollutants you release into the air. Passing a smog test shows that your car is not surpassing the limit of carbon emissions per vehicle in your city. It also assures you that your car is in tiptop shape and that everything is in good working order.
If you employ these three things, you’ll see a drastic change in your carbon footprint. I’m glad to say that by the time I graduated from college, my carbon footprint was no longer large enough for three adults. I know use energy fit for one person and I’m very happy with that accomplishment.
How about you? What are you doing to help save our earth? Why don�t you take the first step and get a smog testing for your car? There are a number of test only smog stations that you can find and this little effort will go a long way.