We all know that gas prices are headed back up, yet why do many of us not carpool to work? I know I do four days a week. It saves quite a bit of money in a year if you are spending half as much on gas on a weekly basis.

According to the One D Scorecard www.OneDScorecard.org, out of 54 major metropolitan areas studied, Detroit ranked 50 for the percentage of people who carpool to work.

Lets do the math, say you drive 15 miles to work, 30 miles total per day, five times a week. That is 150 miles per week. Say you car gets a generous 25mpg, that is 6 gallons of gas per week just to get you to and from work. Multiply that by 52 weeks per year. This equals 312 gallons of gas per year. Current prices are $2.75/gallon. That means that driving to work alone, you spend $858 on gas per year.

Now think what you can save if you carpool with one person and only drive half of the days to work. You could save $429 per year.

That is a lot of extra spending money, or money for living expenses! The numbers kind of speak for themselves.

Lets carpool more Detroit!