Transportation to and from your wedding is a large part of the event’s carbon footprint. Guests are driving or flying into town, driving from their hotels or homes to the ceremony, and sometimes even driving from the ceremony to the reception if the two events are being held at different venues.
For a wedding of 100 people, where about 35 guests are flying in and about 65 are driving, Terrapass.com estimates that about 40,000 lbs of CO2 would be emitted by transportation means.
What if you could cut that in half? Using biodiesel, an alternative fuel source made from vegetable oil, is one way to help reduce CO2 emissions.
The good news is that there are lots of car services that offer eco-friendly alternatives to gas guzzling limos or rental cars. Carolina Biodiesel and Clean Air Limo are two examples of this service. EcoLimo has services all over California. Bio-Beetle rents affordable and eco-friendly Volkswagen Beetles which are powered by 100 percent biodiesel fuel in Maui. Choose a green alternative, like a biodiesel car, over a 10-miles-to-the-gallon limo for your eco-friendly wedding.
Megan Hartman, the owner of Fourth Dimension Fuels, brings biodiesel to areas north of Tucson. She explained that biodiesel is thinner than regular gasoline and combusts more fully in diesel engines. This causes there to be less “junk” emitted, as more of the fuel is used as energy.
According to Hartman and Biodiesel.org, there are tons of benefits to using biodiesel.
Running 100 percent biodiesel eliminates:
48 percent of carbon monoxide emissions
47 percent of other particulate matter
67 percent of unburned hydrocarbons emissions
There are other benefits too.
Less emissions causes less of an effect on the ozone layer and better air quality
It takes less energy to produce and refine biodiesel
The fuel can be locally grown
Biodiesel is only available for diesel engines but there are other eco-friendly choices for transportation to and from your wedding. Encourage your guests to carpool to your wedding and rent hybrid or alternative fuel cars while they’re in town. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car all have an optional carbon offset program that helps fund offset projects that remove CO2 from the environment.
For a wedding of 100 people, where about 35 guests are flying in and about 65 are driving, Terrapass.com estimates that about 40,000 lbs of CO2 would be emitted by transportation means.
What if you could cut that in half? Using biodiesel, an alternative fuel source made from vegetable oil, is one way to help reduce CO2 emissions.
The good news is that there are lots of car services that offer eco-friendly alternatives to gas guzzling limos or rental cars. Carolina Biodiesel and Clean Air Limo are two examples of this service. EcoLimo has services all over California. Bio-Beetle rents affordable and eco-friendly Volkswagen Beetles which are powered by 100 percent biodiesel fuel in Maui. Choose a green alternative, like a biodiesel car, over a 10-miles-to-the-gallon limo for your eco-friendly wedding.
Megan Hartman, the owner of Fourth Dimension Fuels, brings biodiesel to areas north of Tucson. She explained that biodiesel is thinner than regular gasoline and combusts more fully in diesel engines. This causes there to be less “junk” emitted, as more of the fuel is used as energy.
According to Hartman and Biodiesel.org, there are tons of benefits to using biodiesel.
Running 100 percent biodiesel eliminates:
48 percent of carbon monoxide emissions
47 percent of other particulate matter
67 percent of unburned hydrocarbons emissions
There are other benefits too.
Less emissions causes less of an effect on the ozone layer and better air quality
It takes less energy to produce and refine biodiesel
The fuel can be locally grown
Biodiesel is only available for diesel engines but there are other eco-friendly choices for transportation to and from your wedding. Encourage your guests to carpool to your wedding and rent hybrid or alternative fuel cars while they’re in town. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car all have an optional carbon offset program that helps fund offset projects that remove CO2 from the environment.
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