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Car sharing is sociable as well as energy saving

Norfolk-based liftshare is helping fill empty car seats on the roads while offering a friendlier, greener and cheaper way to travel. By helping employers set up car sharing schemes and providing a free online national car sharing network, the organisation enables around 80,000 journeys to be taken off the road every day, which it estimates will save around 110,000 tonnes of CO2 this year. As well as helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions, congestion and pollution, liftshare estimates that a typical commuter saves £1,000 a year, opening up opportunities for people to travel to jobs they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get to.