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Blue Skies for Earth: The Blue Skies Project: Infrastructure Benefits: Commuting Centers at All American Major Metropolitan Area Highway Interstate Exits, Electric Express Buses and Direct Employer Shuttles Will Improve Quality of Life, Lower Costs of Living, Improve Transportation Safety, and Guarantee More Than 73 Million American Retirees a Safe, Efficient, and Affordable Transportation Safety Net.

What’s one of the most important truths about major metropolitan areas, and therefore all surrounding areas, being enveloped in gray, grayish-brown or brown skies instead of healthy blue skies? Many people who spent ages 6-18 riding public transportation to and from their K-12 schooling have decided public transportation doesn’t work for them because it can take more than an hour or two to travel the same distance that personal transportation can travel in minutes. The number one reason why public transportation doesn’t work for many people is many employers either require or prefer employees to own personal transportation so they aren’t affected by untenable commute times or the employer not being near a public bus stop. The number one question employers should be asking themselves is, “Does requiring all employees to own personal transportation increase our profits, or sabotage our business?”

How is a business requiring all employees to own personal transportation detrimental to the business’ health? If an employee’s personal transportation has an unexpected breakdown in the morning, they have to call in an unexcused absence and take their vehicle to the repair shop (if they can afford to), and in many cases, after 2 such absences, the employee has to be terminated and replaced. If a public transportation authority or private transportation company has an unexpected breakdown, they have backups and spares in place to prevent a service disruption. Public transportation can be purchased for a set monthly price, but personal transportation can be affected by unexpected repairs and fluctuations in fuel prices, and there are simply no good reasons why employers and employees should have to consider employment termination due to unexpected personal transportation breakdowns and repairs.

Public and private transportation is already more reliable than personal transportation because it’s not a random employee’s business to succeed as a transportation business owner, but at present, it’s nowhere near as efficient or timely as personal transportation. Due to the 2020 blue skies miracles over all American major metropolitan areas, it’s now a fact that the American people will see the return of the 2020 blue skies miracles over all major metropolitan areas in the United States of America when public and private transportation become faster, more efficient, and more cost effective to employers and employees than relying on personal transportation for workplace commuting. American interstate and highway congestion is the unfortunate consequence and untenable manifestation of hundreds of thousands of work commuters occupying 22 feet of space each, in one lane of traffic, while traveling slowly and inefficiently in the same direction as many of their coworkers and driving up consumer costs by hobbling commercial transportation professionals. It only requires seven 40 passenger electric buses to free up an entire mile of traffic that’d allow 280 employees traveling in the same direction to travel at 55 mph instead of 5 mph (which is the difference of listening to approximately 1/3 of your favorite 3 minute song during that mile while traveling at 55 mph on public or private transportation, versus listening to 4 of your favorite 3 minute songs during that same mile while traveling at 5 mph in personal transportation).

The Quality of Life Differences: 2 Employees Required to Report to Work by 9:00 am 5 days per week.

Both employees live 3 miles from their nearest interstate commuting center, travel 5 miles on the interstate, and have employers 2 miles from the nearest interstate exit.

Employee #1: Personal Transportation Only:

Drives 3 miles to the interstate on-ramp and has to rapidly merge into the heavily congested personal and commercial transportation lanes. Any attempts to travel in the express bus lane instead of merging into the personal and commercial transportation lanes results in a strictly-enforced $500 fine. Surrounded by like-minded employees who hate the idea of sitting next to other adults on a bus for a few minutes, and many unfortunate professionals trying their best to make a living in the logistics and transportation industry while keeping consumer costs as low as possible, they all slow-crawl along the interstate system together for 5 miserable miles under grayish-brown to brown skies. They eventually exit the congested interstate and drive 2 miles to their employer’s parking lot, park their vehicle, and clock in by 8:45 am (unless there was an interstate congestion problem that caused them to accumulate an unexcused tardy mark against their employment record). They reverse the process in the evening.

When they visit the company break room, they notice they’re not part of the crowd that socializes in the commuting center lounge and on the employer shuttle bus every morning and evening. They also notice that although they’re included at company parties, picnics and events, they’re not as included and integrated into the company dynamic as the large group of employees who socialize in the commuting center lounge and on the employer shuttle bus every morning and evening. They eventually notice that the people who socialize every morning and evening before and after work always get the promotions, best work assignments, and available offices/work spaces. Eventually, they realize that when you undeniably clarify 5 days per week, week after week, year after year, that you don’t care about your own present or future well-being, or the present and future well-being of others and future generations, people won’t ever want to trust you with the well-being of anyone or anything.

Employee #1 Financial Analysis: 20 mpg vehicle:

Auto mileage: 20 miles per day x 5 days x 48 weeks = 4800 miles per year.

Auto insurance: $100.

Gasoline (work commuting only): 240 gallons per year x $3 per gallon = $720 per year.

Employee #2: Personal, Public, and Private Transportation:

Weekly or Monthly: Reserves a parking space at their nearest interstate commuting center, makes reservations for express interstate travel and direct employer shuttle service, and purchases their travel pass.

Daily: Drives 3 miles to their nearest interstate commuting center, parks their vehicle in a secured and monitored area, checks in for their express bus and employer shuttle, and waits in the lounge while enjoying free WiFi, restroom availability, and a nice selection of vending machine offerings. Boards their express interstate shuttle bus, zips past congested personal and commercial traffic at 55 mph, exits the express bus, enjoys the local commuting center lounge while socializing with their coworkers, then boards the direct employer shuttle bus to work. They reverse the process in the evening.

Employee #2 Financial Analysis: 20 mpg vehicle:

Auto mileage: 6 miles per day x 5 days x 48 weeks = 1440 miles per year.

Auto insurance: $100.

Gasoline (work commuting only): 72 gallons per year x $3 per gallon = $216 per year.

Weekly Interstate Express Shuttle Bus and Direct Employer Shuttle Bus Pass (including parking and lounge access): $20 x 48 weeks per year = $960 per year. Receives a fully refundable $1000 annual income tax deduction for their dedicated climate management activism.

The Quality of Life and Financial Differences:

Employee #2 enjoys the added benefits of:

3,360 miles per year less wear and tear on their personal vehicle.

Avoiding the stress and vehicle exhaust exposure of commuting in congested interstate traffic twice per day, every day, for 48 weeks per year.

Saving $504 per year in work commuting gasoline expense.

A more synergized, secure and dynamic work environment where they’re recognized as a responsible, healthy, and fully invested part of the company, their family, their community, their country, and the world with more available opportunities for promotions, recognition, better work assignments, and better offices/work spaces.

It’s important to remember that in addition to all of the benefits American employees and future generations who’ll grow up utilizing this infrastructure will enjoy, 73 million Americans need this blue skies infrastructure implementation to happen by 2030 so they can fully and safely enjoy their retirement years without having to worry about how they’re going to get around their local areas and the rest of the United States of America. This infrastructure upgrade needs to appear on the 2022 and 2024 elections ballot so the transportation and financial needs of more than 140 million Americans can be met by 2030.

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blueskies4earth · 2 years

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Blue Skies for Earth: The Blue Skies Project: Commuting Centers at all American Major Metropolitan Area Highway Interstate Exits, and 1,655,318 Electric 40 Passenger Buses to Free Up 236,474 Miles of Congested American Interstate Lanes Per Day, Lower Costs of Living, and Empower 73 Million Retirement-aged Americans.

Commuting Center Amenities: controlled access secured parking deck/garage, transportation system information, reservations, ticketing, and check-in kiosks, restrooms, a lounge area with charging outlets, free WiFi, and an assortment of vending machines offerings.

Commuters reserve a parking deck/garage space at their nearest commuting center, a seat on an express bus to their employer’s nearest commuting center, and a seat on a shuttle from the destination commuting center directly to their employer’s location.

Public transportation authorities and private transportation companies run multiple direct shuttle buses from the commuting centers to local employers and commercial areas during peak hours, and bi-hourly direct shuttle buses during non-peak hours.

Employers with 20 or more employees register with their local transportation district. The local transportation district coordinates between employees, employers, commuting centers, and transportation services operators to arrange direct cross-town and employer shuttle transportation based on employer’s shifts and number of employees to guarantee all employees will arrive to work at least 10 to 15 minutes early. This would serve approximately 1,095,578 employers and a minimum of 66,212,710 employees in the United States of America.

20 employees x 635,018 employers = 12,700,360 employees/commuters.

50 employees x 259,690 employers = 12,984,500 employees/commuters.

100 employees x 138,596 employers = 13,859,600 employees/commuters.

250 employees x 37,755 employers = 9,438,750 employees/commuters.

500 employees x 14,579 employers = 7,289,500 employees/commuters.

1000 employees x 9,940 employers = 9,940,000 employees/commuters.

Minimum American employees/commuters served per workday: 66,212,710.

Source: NAICS Association https://www.naics.com/business-lists/counts-by-company-size/

Long Distance Commuters with Gasoline Vehicles:

Average daily commute distance: 20 miles – 6 mile commute to/from commuting center: 14 miles.

Average daily commute distance: 30 miles – 6 mile commute to/from commuting center: 24 miles.

Average daily commute distance: 40 miles – 6 mile commute to/from commuting center: 34 miles.

A 20 mpg gasoline vehicle emits approximately 445 grams of carbon dioxide exhaust per mile.

445 x 14 = 6,230 grams of auto exhaust carbon dioxide reduction per day (31,150 grams per week).

445 x 24 = 10,680 grams of auto exhaust carbon dioxide reduction per day (53,400 grams per week).

445 x 34 = 15,130 grams of auto exhaust carbon dioxide reduction per day (75,650 grams per week).

If those 66,212,710 American commuters had a minimum 20 mile round trip work commute, with the majority of it being via a major metropolitan area interstate system, and they only needed to drive 3 miles from their home to their nearest commuting center, American commuters could reduce the American global carbon footprint by 99,001,243,992,000 grams (99,001,244 metric tons) per year (based on 240 workdays per year). An average acre of mixed trees can absorb up to 4 tons of carbon dioxide per year. That amount of auto exhaust carbon dioxide would require approximately 24,750,311 acres (38,673 square miles) of mixed tree forests to reduce and offset it. The entire American state of South Carolina is approximately 32,000 square miles, so you’d have to convert all of South Carolina and add the major metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Georgia, Detroit, Michigan, Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Indianapolis, Indiana, Nashville, Tennessee, Phoenix, Arizona, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Houston, Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida into a large national forest area, and you’d still only have 36,100 square miles of trees. You’d have to add 3 more Houston, Texas-sized areas of mixed trees forest to offset the same amount of auto exhaust carbon dioxide as the minimum auto exhaust carbon dioxide reduction of implementing this blue skies commuting and prosperity plan.

Proterra ZX5 Electric 40-Foot, 40 Passenger Bus:

Starting in 2023, the 40-foot Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit bus can be equipped with up to 738 kilowatt hours (kWh) of onboard energy. Through this enhancement, Proterra transit buses now feature the most energy storage of any 40-foot electric bus available in the North American market. With 738 kWh of battery energy storage, the ZX5 Max can deliver more than 300 miles of drive range on a single charge, depending on route conditions, configuration and operation.

66,212,710 American commuters / 40 passengers per bus = a minimum of 1,655,318 electric buses.

Houston, Texas:

Yearly Delay per Auto Commuter = 49 hours

Yearly Excess Fuel per Auto Commuter = 21 gallons

Source: 2021 Urban Mobility Report: https://static.tti.tamu.edu/tti.tamu.edu/documents/mobility-report-2021.pdf

Every Proterra ZX5 electric 40 passenger bus could reduce long-distance commuters’ auto gas consumption by up to 840 gallons per year in Houston, Texas. Other U.S. cities with traffic congestion issues reported yearly excess fuel per auto commuter at between 10 to 17 gallons per year. The average length of a car is around 15 feet. If drivers are keeping half a car length between them in bumper-to-bumper traffic congestion, that’s 880 feet of cars in a slow-crawling lane of traffic, but if those 40 commuters were on a 40 foot electric bus, that traffic lane is now freed up by 840 feet, and all it’d take is seven 40 passenger electric buses to free up an entire mile-long lane of traffic, and those 7 buses traveling in the same direction would arrive at their commuting center destination much faster than 280 passenger cars stuck in traffic.

In addition to freeing up an entire mile of congested traffic, those 7 electric 40 passenger buses would be contributing to lower fuel prices for consumers and transportation companies, which translates into lower inflation and costs of living for all consumer goods and services. Remember, it’d take a minimum of 1,655,318 electric 40 passenger buses to get America to work on time every day, and if those buses are reducing consumer fuel demand by at least 10 gallons per year, that’s a reduction of 16,553,180 gallons per year. On top of that, those 1,655,318 buses would free up 236,474 miles of congested American interstate lanes per day, which would further reduce transportation costs, inflation, and costs of living for all consumer goods and services. The United States of America needs to move on this blue skies public transportation project now, because by 2030, 73 million Americans, the Baby Boomers, will be aged 65 (www.census.gov) and they’re going to need convenient and well-established transportation systems as they retire and their driving abilities become age-affected.

If this blue skies public transportation initiative is in place by 2030, 73 million Americans will be able to easily schedule a convenient, quick and comfortable ride across town to any national transportation hub or local area of interest while their respiratory systems are enjoying the health benefits of their cities being enveloped by healthy blue skies. Inflation and costs of living will be well-managed, and those 73 million Americans will know their younger family members have a lot to look forward to. Many Americans grow up riding a commuter bus to school. There are no truthful reasons why Americans can’t ride an express bus to work to gift them with more free time, lower costs of living, and healthy blue skies to enjoy for their entire lives.

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blueskies4earth · 2 years

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Earth Day 2022: Blue Skies for Earth: The Blue Skies Project: A Win/Win Blue Skies Deal for the 2022 U.S. Elections

How can the United States of America drastically reduce transportation-related emissions and pollution? It’s easy. Every American household of any size, irrespective of income, could claim a refundable $200.00 per household, per year, tax credit to pay for the industry average $100 annual delivery fee for two of their favorite retailers or delivery services, while simultaneously increasing employment opportunities for professional delivery drivers. It’s a win/win solution that rewards every American with convenient delivery services that reduce their monthly transportation costs, commute times, stress levels, wear and tear on their personal transportation, travel-related accident risks, and could also result in lower auto insurance rates and auto injuries and fatalities.

Many residents in American major metropolitan areas live within two to three miles of a grocery store.

A 2001 Progressive Insurance survey of 11,000 American drivers discovered that 52% of drivers were involved in auto accidents within five minutes of their home, and 77% were involved in auto accidents within 15 miles of their home (Source: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2108966/survey-finds-vehicle-crashes-most-likely-occur-close-home/). Figuring an average city fuel economy of 18 miles per gallon, for one 2-mile round trip grocery shopping trip per week, 52 weeks per year, encouraging every American household to skip the weekly grocery shopping trips could save an average American household approximately 12 gallons of gas per year and all of the time it takes to get ready, then go shopping, checkout, load the groceries at the store, then unload the groceries at home. Many single parents could probably appreciate the additional grocery cost savings of avoiding the potential budget battles with all of the kid-friendly checkout line area treats and goodies, plus the additional savings of an extra $40 to $50 per year in auto gas expense.

Another simple and easy solution for reducing transportation-related emissions and pollution is to grant every American household of any size, irrespective of income, a refundable $300.00 transportation credit for up to a 5.0 cubic foot garage-ready chest freezer that could halve the number of grocery deliveries necessary to feed a family of four. Many working-poor families don’t have the ability to create an emergency frozen food storage solution for the five-week months that can potentially stress the family food budget. If every American household had an emergency frozen food supply of 2 gallons of milk, extra cheese and butter products, frozen vegetables and meats, and maybe even some extra ice cream and frozen pizzas, those family members would face less daily stress knowing they have at least an extra week or two worth of emergency food supplies for their family.

Reducing grocery delivery demand to twice per month reduces household auto gas demand, but that demand would simply be absorbed by delivery drivers who’d still create carbon dioxide emissions. The 2020 census counted 126.8 million occupied households (www.census.gov). 126,800,000 American households x 12 gallons of gas per year = an American auto gas savings of 1,521,600,000 gallons per year. According to www.fueleconomy.gov, burning one gallon of gasoline can produce 8,887 grams of auto exhaust carbon dioxide. 1,521,600,000 gallons of gasoline x 8,887 grams of carbon dioxide production = 13,522,459,200,000 grams (13,522,459 metric tons) of auto exhaust carbon dioxide production per year. Further reducing the halved household grocery store trips carbon dioxide emissions from 7,021,276 metric tons per year will require phasing out gas vehicles and utilizing only hybrid electric/gas delivery vehicles for all delivery services in the United States of America.

A 20 mpg gasoline vehicle emits approximately 445 grams of carbon dioxide exhaust per mile. A hybrid electric/gas vehicle emits approximately 187 grams of carbon dioxide exhaust per mile.

Carbon dioxide exhaust emissions comparison for 27 4-mile round trip grocery trips per year:

20 mpg gasoline vehicle: 1,780 grams per trip x 27=48,060 grams per year.

Hybrid electric/gas vehicle: 748 grams per trip x 27=20,196 grams per year.

Transitioning all home delivery vehicles to hybrid electric/gas vehicles:

48,060-20,196= 27,864 grams per household, per year x 126,800,000 households = an annual reduction of 3,533,155,200,000 grams (3,533,155 metric tons) of auto exhaust carbon dioxide.

Halving American household grocery deliveries demand to 27 deliveries per year, plus transitioning to all hybrid electric/gas delivery vehicles, could reduce America’s global carbon footprint by 10,554,431 metric tons of auto exhaust carbon dioxide per year. An average acre of mixed trees can absorb up to 4 tons of carbon dioxide per year. That’d be a substantial 2,638,607 acres (4,123 square miles) of trees worth of American carbon dioxide emissions reduction per year. Removing 10 million, 554 thousand metric tons of carbon dioxide production (that number could be doubled or tripled if 1 or 2 members of those households are also leaving their workplaces for lunch every day) from American skies could be as easy as granting 126.8 million American households a $500.00 refundable tax credit per year.

What does 4,123 square miles of trees actually look like?

Atlanta, Georgia: 135.3 square miles.

Detroit, Michigan: 138.7 square miles.

Denver, Colorado: 153.1 square miles.

Kansas City, Missouri: 314.7 square miles.

Indianapolis, Indiana: 361.6 square miles.

Nashville, Tennessee: 475.8 square miles.

Phoenix, Arizona: 518 square miles.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 606.2 square miles.

Houston, Texas: 640.4 square miles.

Jacksonville, Florida: 747.3 square miles.

10 of the largest American major metropolitan areas account for 4,091.1 square miles. That’s a win/win blue skies deal many American voters might consider voting for in the upcoming 2022 elections.

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