Driving is a big problem. We drive to and from school or work, to a friend's house or a party, to our extracurricular activities. This is a huge contributor to carbon emissions, especially since we are not only driving them but the car also had to be made and, in most cases, shipped over here. Cars are made using large amounts of fuel, then are transported over here using and burning even more fuel. And then we start driving them.
   The disturbing thing I find in the US the that people feel the need to have a huge SUV when they don't need all that space. Bags of equipment for sports fit in sedans and station wagons; so do computer bags and briefcases. We use unnecessarily large amount of fuel to do simple tasks that could be done with half the gas.
   SUV's have large drawbacks when compared to smaller, more efficient cars. They almost always use more gas, they take up more space on the road, they are bulkier and harder to handle, and it's incredibly difficult to find a parking spot big enough to fit one into. Sedans and station wagons, on the other hand, can park virt ually anywhere, use less gas (which is nice at today's rising prices) and can almost always make the U-turn on the first try. Also, since rich people are often the ones with SUV's, they are more likely to be robbed than a littler car.
   Ideally, we'd all recycle our cars and walk/ride bikes everywhere. Unfortunately, that's not an option that most people can take, myself included. But instead of using the most gasoline possible, do the world a favor and drive a car that uses less.

Or ride a bike or walk. Driving is faster but it puts more pollution into the air