Carpooling
For a few months now, my husband and I have been carpooling to work in the Honda Insight, my little red hybrid. We work across the street from each other, so it makes it very convenient. He used to work 11 miles in the opposite direction, and as a result was filling up his car every two weeks. He drives a BMW 530i with an 18 or 20 gallon tank. He just went to the gas station to fill his car this morning and informed me it was $75! He is only filling it up roughly once per month now because of the carpooling.
Comparitively, we fill up the hybrid roughly every 10 days, and it has a 10 gallon tank. The car gets an average of 60 miles to the gallon. That means we spend about $120 per month on gas as a result of our carpooling. So, we are saving about $75 a month just on the gas from his car. You could also factor that we are saving another $120 a month just by driving the hybrid, since any other vehicle would get about half the gas mileage.
This little car was well worth the investment! Going green is money! 