Just Plane Frustrating
In the typical year, my family's biggest source of CO2 emissions is -- by quite a wide margin -- air travel. We use a bit less gasoline than a typical American family, but we more than make up for it by travelling long distances to visit our family, scattered around the east and west coasts.
A few years back, I started strategizing about how to reduce our air travel. And I settled on a two-step plan.
Step one: convince my sister to move from San Jose to Seattle -- which would not only mean that we could see much more of each other, but also save our families at least 2 round trips per year.
Step two: vacation close to home every other year, saving at least one cross-country round trip flight for our family of 4.
So this year, we put both steps into action. My sister will be moving into our neighborhood (yay!) and we decided to visit the Olympic peninsula rather than our families on the east coast. We'll be flying a lot less as a result.
But as things have turned out, I'm not sure that our plans have saved a single drop of fuel.
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