Sustainable Shipping

You need to ship your product. It must arrive at its destination on time and in perfect condition. Your only option is to hire a trucking company fueled by petroleum diesel. But today you stop to consider what that means:

• 40 compounds in diesel exhaust are linked to cancer and/or reproductive harm
• A single diesel truck can pollute as much as 400 cars
• 2% of vehicles on the road are trucks, but they make up almost half the vehicle pollution
• California alone spends $21.5 billion in diesel exhaust-related health care costs
• 22 pounds of carbon dioxide is produced for every gallon of diesel burned
• Global temperatures are at their highest in 1,200 years due to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
• The United States will spend over $170 billion this year importing foreign oil, largely from hostile Middle Eastern countries
• An estimated 4.5 million domestic jobs are lost due to our foreign oil consumption
• The United States spends around $150-250 billion per year buying, defending, and subsidizing foreign oil, while spending another $150 billion in damages from fossil-fuel-induced air pollution

Dollars spent on diesel-run trucking supports a non-renewable resource and an inefficient use of energy while threatening the health of ourselves and our planet. All the while, our nation’s economy suffers and our military battles.

The solution is Blue Sky Clean Air Shipping; the first environmentally sound trucking service in the Bay Area. Our trucks run on Biodiesel – a renewable, efficient, domestically-produced fuel made from recycled vegetable oil. Biodiesel substantially reduces emissions, creates local jobs, and smells like french fries out the tailpipe.