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Carpooling Is Saving Me $6,800/year

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · lifestyle, money, sustainability, transportation, work

Next month I’ll celebrate my one year anniversary at my job — and my carpool will have saved me $6,800. To figure that out, I used the calculator at Carpool Match Northwest, which is also where I found my congenial carpool (six of us now) in the first place.
My situation is actually both better and [...]

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Saving Money With Carpooling

May 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · sustainability

I’m reading about the pain of high gas prices, and the auto industry shrinking, and Americans actually driving a bit less. While I care about people’s pain, I’m not experiencing it, myself. My husband Thor commutes via TriMet (the public transit here in Portland, Oregon), and I carpool with five other people to get to [...]

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Carpool Survivor

April 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · lifestyle, simplicity, transportation, work

I am lucky enough to be in a carpool with five great people for my two-hour round-trip commute. (I found them through Carpool Match Northwest.) We save money, save emissions and have fun. So on the morning of April Fool’s day I tossed off a prank email to them.

I wrote: “It has been such a pleasure knowing you! My new inheritance means I can now afford a

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