{"article":{"id":206762,"heading":"&quot;Stop Your Engines Day&quot;!","author":"Kenneth Augustine","created":"2007-09-10 23:38:51","modified":"2007-09-11 02:58:33","last_modified":"Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:58:33","article":"<br>  <br> Proposal - To select one day (as a start) in each month as a day of rest for your automobile,and so also relief from its negative effects on our environment.  <br><br> **Leaving your automobile at home,just one day in a month is enough amazingly,in North America,to save hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline from being used and this will have a number of positive effects,from dropping gas prices owing to having created a surplus.Also if gasoline prices are lower,then this will have an effect on lowering prices across the board on a lot of consumer goods and services because the transportation costs re gasoline,are lower as a result.  <br><br> The air quality in major urban centers will be much improved on this Stop-Your-Engines-Day plus these cities will have a surreal look and feel because it will be so strange (and beautiful) to walk around the streets that have no frantic,noisy traffic jams on them.  <br><br> I think the last thursday in each month would be a very good day to \"Stop-Your-Engines\" and leave your polluting,gas guzzling car,van or truck at home.  <br><br> The reason,because the last thursday in each month is a better or at least a less painful day to leave your auto at home (compared to say the last friday) because people get off work on that day for the weekend and they usually have a lot planned from shopping to clubbing to going on trips. <br><br> Thursday would be a good day for a \"trial run\" on reclaiming our environment from the ravages of the gasoline powered automobile including noise,traffic jams,asphalt infestation and the unsustainable (but preventable) pollution and poisioning of our breathable atmosphere. <br><br> www.stopyourengines.blogspot.com  <br><br>  <br>  <br> \n","contact":"","link":"stopyourengines.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Leaving your automobile at home,just one day in a month is enough amazingly,in North America,to save hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline from being used and this will have a number of positive effects,from dropping gas prices owing to having created a surplus plus a little bit cleaner air!\r\n","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/09\/206762.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":206779,"heading":"Finally","article":"Finally....... You report on something worth reading......\r\n\r\nThis is a GREAT idea!!!!\r\n\r\nPerhaps 1 day a week, EVERY week!\r\n\r\nI know its kind of far fetched, but can you imagine every able bodied person leaving their car home at least once every week...... SWEET!!","author":"Dudley DoRight","parent_id":206762,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-09-11 02:58:33","modified":"2007-09-11 02:58:33","fileurl":""}]}