Originally Posted by
john423
I don't get peeved when people tell me how I'm being all "green," but I do make a habit of pointing out that green has nothing to do with it - my poor old 1992 car has 164,000 miles on it, and I figure every mile I put on the bike isn't going on the car. I'm too cheap/broke to buy another car, so I wanna make the one I have now last as long as possible. And if it has a finite amount of miles on it, then riding my bike at every opportunity is lengthening the amount of time until I hit that finite amount of miles.
I find that the best way of 'being green' is just to be cheap. Biking is part of that for me. I get where the OP is coming from, though.