Semester Essay #8

 Prompt:22 Carpooling, recycling, and planting trees are all activities that are good for the environment. Write an essay convincing readers to actively participate in one of these activities.

Carpooling is an arrangement in which a group of people commute together by car according to Webster Dictionary. Carpooling not only helps the environment in several ways but also helps you in many ways as well. Carpooling helps decrease the amount of pollution, saves you time and money, reduces the risks of car accidents, and more. Carpooling can also be fun depending on who you carpool with. Carpooling overall is a generous act to our environment.

Did you know carpooling saves you time and money? If you did not know that, the answer is yes it does save you time and money. Everyone knows that time and money is two very important factors in one’s life. Time allows you to accomplish your daily goals which most likely includes work or going to school depending on which you do. Money is another thing that carpooling would help you conserve because you would pay half of the amount of gas as you normally would if you drove by yourself, or took the bus.

Carpooling helps reduce the pollution that is created daily by motor vehicles. Carpooling helps decrease the pollution in our atmosphere because petrol cars produce two different kinds of pollution: exhaust emissions, and evaporative emissions. Exhaust emission is when petrol cars release dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and particulates into the air. Evaporative emissions are when vapors of fuel are released into the atmosphere, without being burnt. By carpooling you help the atmosphere because you are not created twice as pollution but half and if people carpooled the amount of pollution would definitely decrease in a great amount of pollution.

Carpooling can be fun depending on who you carpool with and reduces the amount of cars on the streets which equals to less car accidents. If you carpool with a close friend, you will definitely get to know them way better than before and even get closer as friends because you will interact with them throughout the ride. Carpooling will definitely decrease a great number of car accidents because the less cars there are out on the streets the less chances there are that there will be car accidents. That’s why in traffic even if traffic is slow, there are always small car accidents that many or may not be fatal.

Carpooling is beneficial for everyone, because everyone wins. Carpooling is a generous act to our environment because it decreases the amount of pollution in our atmosphere. Carpooling also is very generous to our pockets, and by pocket’s I mean as in carpooling saves us money by at least half of the transportation money that would be used if you did not carpool. Carpooling can be interesting and fun depending on who you carpool with. Carpooling is very generous to everyone in general because fewer cars equal fewer accidents on the streets.