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  Think Incrementally, don't have average thoughts

  Equating an eleventh bus rider to a 38 MPG driver seems like wrong average logic.  Imagine the 3.8 MPG bus has a 38 mile route and uses 10 gallons while it carries 10 passengers.  If an eleventh passenger (the incremental rider) rides it tomorrow, it will not need an eleventh gallon of gas to accelerate and carry that rider along with the other 10 riders on the 38 mile route. It would probably need a couple of ounces of additional gas to accelerate and carry the additional load.  The incremental rider is 9% of the total riders but only 1 or 2% of the total load of bus plus riders.  If we guess the incremental rider caused an incremental increase of 0.1 gallons of gas usage, then it's the equivilent of a car that gets 380 MPG (38 miles/0.1 gal.)  
  I imagine that to increase the fuel use of the bus by a gallon to get your incremental gas use up to 38 MPG, you would have to weigh one tenth as much as the bus plus driver and 10 other passengers combined and be strapped to the roof in a way that also increased the air drag by 9%.  On BP gives carbon cutting tips posted 3 years ago 7 Responses

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  Dump and Run on Campuses

  I found a site aimed at helping eliminate college student moveout waste (office supplies, desk lamps, printers, clothes, furniture, etc) that gets tossed at the end of the year.  Check out www.dumpandrun.org
  They are geared to help collect the discards and sell them to incoming students and donating proceeds to charity.   On Colleges and universities are learning what it takes to go green posted 3 years ago 4 Responses