Rather obscured in all four-buck-gas-price-let’s-drill-the-Grand-Canyon fervor is the simple, radical, forgotten fuel-saving technology that promises up to 75% improvements in fuel efficiency: Carpooling.

This good story in the Boston Globe breaks it down. My favorite passage:

“Being in a van pool, jokes the cheerful court stenographer with spiky red hair, is like marriage: “There are days you just have to pretend you don’t hear someone.” In both social contracts, participants initially fear the loss of independence and autonomy, but once they start reaping the benefits, many will quickly forget that they ever lived another way.”

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