OK, I just searched Tim Horton's Idling in Google and the second thing that came up was a project by the U of A. It's all about driving and conserving when you drive. What I wanted to look at though was the page about idling. It's horrible. On there it says that if every driver in
Canada avoided idling for just 5 minutes a day, we would prevent more than:
1 million tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere
This would be like removing 200 000 cars for 1 year
Collectively, we would save 1.8 million litres of fuel
We would save $1.7 million in fuel costs
You could save over $100 each year
OK, so that's the good part. The bad part is this:
Daily emissions at one Tim Horton's outlet:
University of Alberta estimates 385 kilograms of CO2 emissions per day.
That's just ONE Tim Horton's outlet. Just ONE!!!!! So that's 140 525 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year and 3 372 600 kilograms of CO2 per year in all of the Edmonton stores, by the way, there's 24 in Edmonton. Of course that's thinking that all the stores have a drive- through, they probably don't all... phew! But still, that is terrible!! In all of Canada per year Tim Horton's (assuming all the stores have drive throughs) emit 384 054 825 kilograms of CO2 per year. Ahhhhhhhhh! Once again that's assuming that they all have drive throughs! And if you count all the Tim Horton's in the whole world ( 2 733 in Canada, 345 in the USA, and 1 outside of Kandahar Afghanistan) that emits 432 676 475 kilograms of CO2 per year. Once again, assuming they all have drive through.
So there it is. The facts. It might be horrible but it's very, very true. So, if you want to save our environment don't idle and definitely don't go to Tim Horton's drive - through. Also if you want to know more about what I told you visit the Drive Wiser project put together by the U of A.
And don't even get me started with McDonald's!!!
Canada avoided idling for just 5 minutes a day, we would prevent more than:
1 million tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere
This would be like removing 200 000 cars for 1 year
Collectively, we would save 1.8 million litres of fuel
We would save $1.7 million in fuel costs
You could save over $100 each year
OK, so that's the good part. The bad part is this:
Daily emissions at one Tim Horton's outlet:
University of Alberta estimates 385 kilograms of CO2 emissions per day.
That's just ONE Tim Horton's outlet. Just ONE!!!!! So that's 140 525 kilograms of CO2 emissions per year and 3 372 600 kilograms of CO2 per year in all of the Edmonton stores, by the way, there's 24 in Edmonton. Of course that's thinking that all the stores have a drive- through, they probably don't all... phew! But still, that is terrible!! In all of Canada per year Tim Horton's (assuming all the stores have drive throughs) emit 384 054 825 kilograms of CO2 per year. Ahhhhhhhhh! Once again that's assuming that they all have drive throughs! And if you count all the Tim Horton's in the whole world ( 2 733 in Canada, 345 in the USA, and 1 outside of Kandahar Afghanistan) that emits 432 676 475 kilograms of CO2 per year. Once again, assuming they all have drive through.
So there it is. The facts. It might be horrible but it's very, very true. So, if you want to save our environment don't idle and definitely don't go to Tim Horton's drive - through. Also if you want to know more about what I told you visit the Drive Wiser project put together by the U of A.
And don't even get me started with McDonald's!!!
2 comments:
You know what Isaac? I was just thinking about this very issue this morning. As I was driving to Oma and Opa's condo this morning, I went down Portage Ave and went past the Tim Horton's. The line up for the drive thru actually snaked out onto Portage so there must have been about 30 cars lined up. And I thought how horrible it was that so many cars were sitting there idling. Would be faster to just park the car and go inside. I'm sure that if more people knew the facts that you found out they might think about parking and going inside any fast food place rather than use the drive through...
I actuallk read those very same facts not that long ago- must have been in the paper or perhaps someone sent me that article? At any rate- I am probably the only one in the family who does go to TH, but that information definately changed my habit of going there and going there in the line up! Sooo, see how that information can make a difference!!
Thanks for more info...
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