Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right

....but three lefts do. Although I guess that should be the other way around since this story claims that UPS saved over 3.3 million gallons of gas in 2007 by only allowing their drivers to turn right. Needless to say, I find this figure to be a little surprising. While I will readily agree that sitting at a stop light idling wastes a lot of gas, I would hardly have guessed it would be so much. But there's more too it than that. Further investigation shows that a lot of that is also planning your route before hand so that you can avoid left turns. Regardless, I am now on a mission to find a UPS truck turning left. Hopefully I will have a camera handy when it happens so that I can have some solid evidence afterward.

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