The Freedom Prize Blog

Sitting in our cars, stuck in traffic is something we’ve all experienced. One study also showed that drivers in LA wasted over 93 hours a year stuck in traffic. If you haven’t we want to know your secret!

Carpooling to work every day can help commuters save gas money, reduce pollutants in the environment, and decrease traffic on our roads. Where does your state rank in carpooling?

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Some carpoolers have reported savings of over $3,000 a year! To see how much you can potentially save visit the “Savings Calculator” here:

Here are some resources which inspired us to think about carpooling! We hope they may inspire you too:

Good Morning America Carpool Challenge

And RideSearch.com, a Free Nationwide Carpool Service

Obviously there are good reasons why we don’t carpool more. These reasons may include: safety, finding comfort in one’s own vehicle, and difficulty scheduling with fellow carpoolers.

We’d like to hear from you! Do you carpool to work? Why or why not? If you wouldn’t currently, what types of incentives or programs would help you?

Welcome to the Freedom Prize Blog!

If you’ve spent some time exploring our site, you know we launched in Washington, DC over the summer and have exciting things planned.

We invite you and/or your organization to compete for cash awards (prizes) by helping our country reduce our dependence on oil! You will be hearing soon about how to get involved.

We’ll talk in future posts about the reason we are excited specifically about Prizes. Perhaps you may know other prize models such as the X Prize, Innocentive, the Nobel Prize, and others. The Freedom Prizes have their own unique characteristics and are also similar to other prize models you may have heard about.

Stay tuned for more. Until then, we’re interested in hearing your stories about reducing oil dependence in your schools, communities, cities, places of work, or on your military base.

What are your experiences in learning about, measuring, or reducing your oil consumption?

Who do you know working on oil dependence reduction at your workplace, school, community, city, or in the military?

You will be hearing from us on some conferences we have been attending, experts on prizes we have been speaking with, and information we come across which informs our work. We hope to hear from you!