Travel and carbon comparison

We're taking a little family trip for spring break. Nothing too spectacular, the destination is relatively close to us. Well, if about 300 miles is close.

I got to thinking about the impact of flying versus driving. We'll be driving in our Honda. I just looked up the gas mileage on our car and it's a paltry 25 MPG. I won't be employing any of the fancy mileage increasing techniques of the hypermilers so I guess 25 it is.

According to the carbon footprint calculator (which doesn't take into consideration make and model), our drive will output about 100 kg of CO2. However, if we were to fly, it would be more like 300 kg of CO2.

So, although I feel bad about our low MPG, it's better than flying. And since we haven't taken a vacation in a year, I guess it's not too bad.

So, in the spirit of poll week...