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by jumping_frog 576 days ago
One off excursions are totally different than a 5 day back and forth. I don't have data but one can guess.
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I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a detour on my evening commute to get groceries for the next couple of days. Now I plan things out better and make fewer shopping trips, as well.

I wonder if I could negotiate cheaper car insurance rates. I’m driving far less and on safer streets, rarely getting on a major highway.

lets say you are good representative of a general population… how much of a climate change “dent” do you think we made?
I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.
there are many positives of WFH but climate change is not one of them
you don’t write policies based on guesses…