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Published on: 1/13/2002
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Krugler's business partner, Chris Schneider, also uses a bike as his primary source of transportation.His wife, Cindy Branscum, has a car he can use if he needs it.
Schneider teaches physics alternate days at Bitney Springs Charter High School and bikes there whenever he can.It's a hilly, eight-mile trip that takes 35 minutes from his Boulder Street home.And 45 minutes back, because it's uphill.
"It's also gorgeous," Schneider said.
Exercise is one reason Schneider bikes.He's a self-described "speed freak" who likes racing downhill.
But concern about greenhouse gases emitted by cars is Schneider's main reason for biking.
Schneider belongs to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club.
If an individual wants to have a positive impact on the environment, all three groups recommend the "the first thing is to become vegetarian.The second thing is, don't drive your car," Schneider said.
"It's a sacrifice," Schneider said."(But) everybody has to make sacrifices.Life's pretty good for an American.Why not cut the rest of the world some slack?"
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