1. 30,000 commuters are now traveling in carpools, vanpools trains and buses?
2. An estimated 20 million gallons of fuel are saved each year, 600 tons of non-methane hydrocarbons, 700 tons of nitrous oxide, and 3500 tons of carbon monoxide are reduced each year?
3. 400 million vehicle miles traveled are eliminated annually?
4. Six of seven chief air pollutants come from automobiles?
5. Throughout its lifetime, a typical new car will dump 34 tons of carbon dioxide and 300 pounds of smog-forming pollutants into the atmosphere?
6. Ground-level ozone interferes with the production and storage of starches within plants, reducing their growth rates?
7. Nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide cause acid precipitation, which destroys the ability of lakes and streams to support fish and plant life?
8. Motor vehicle air-conditioning systems in the U.S. are the world's single largest source of chlorofluorocarbon leakage and a leading cause of subsequent destruction to the ozone layer?

Economic Benefits

1. New Yorkers waste 350,000 work hours everyday in traffic jams?

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