Why do we as tire experts still feel so strongly about nitrogen fill? Let's just spell it out. Nitrogen fill is $8 per tire. If you do nitrogen fill you spend a whopping $32.
106 St became the first tire and wheel dealer in Queens to have nitrogen fill in our stores because we believe it saves lives. First, it doesn't leak as fast as compressed air. Properly inflated tires, something many car owners ignore, saves lives.
Each year thousands of accidents are caused by under-inflated tires and people die, are seriously injured, it costs millions of dollars in injuries, lost wages, and property damage.
106 St Tire & Wheel's ownership is very concerned with environmental issues in NYC.
WHY? Simple...we are raising children in Queens and we want the borough and the city to act responsibly in helping improve air quality. We want less pollution.
Please go to http://getnitrogen.org and see why Jay Leno is the national spokesperson for nitrogen fill.
Contact this group at:
Get Nitrogen™ Institute
Denver, Colorado 80211
Phone: 800-406-6044
Fax: 303-845-5297
Send Us An E-Mail
info@getnitrogen.org
106 St Tire & Wheel is highly responsible on all matters of the environment as everyone of we NYers ought to be.
Also, before we give you a reprint of an article that appeared in the Chamber of Commerce's newspaper, 106 St Tire & Wheel wants to remind you to winterize your car for SAFETY. SAFETY FIRST!
Luck favors the prepared! BE PREPARED!
===106 St Tire & Wheel Recommends Nitrogen Fill====
As a life long resident of New York City, this past summer is one I will never forget. Day after day, radio and TV stations warned the elderly and those with breathing issues to stay indoors. We recorded one of the hottest summers in history with the heat, humidity and pollution making air quality unbearable.
For those of us who live in large cities where traffic jams intensify pollution from vehicle emissions resulting in greenhouse gases pouring into the atmosphere, it’s imperative that we understand the huge impact pollution has on all of us.
Air pollution has very negative effects on human health that range from irritated eyes to serious heart and lung effects. It’s been shown to cause increases in asthma and upper respiratory infections in kids and diseases like chronic bronchitis in grown ups.
Greenhouse gases aggravate and worsen the health of those struggling with medical conditions like lung and heart disease and pollution has been linked to a shortened life expectancy.
Ultimately, greenhouse gases affect human health not only by breathing it but also by polluting drinking water of people and live stock and by entering the food chain through acid rain.
And global warming, the associated climate change and sea level rise can threaten earth’s very existence. Our planet is fragile and overcrowded and, we need to take responsibility now for thinking greener as, eventually, our children and their future can only be as healthy as the planet itself.
As a father as well as the owner of a second generation family owned tire chain, I made the decision to think greener a few years ago.
I am empowering my customers with helpful information on how something as simple as under-inflated tires can play a huge role in the future of our planet.
There are over 10,000 tire related accidents each year in the U.S. and the number one cause of tire failure is under-inflated or improperly inflated tires.
Under-inflated tires are costly because they increase tire wear, waste gas and therefore pollute the air. They can cause serious injuries and even deaths in what is a totally avoidable situation.
If you luckily escape injury or worse in an accident caused by under-inflated tires, it will cost you plenty financially in damage to your car, property damage, deductibles, etc.
Improper tire inflation also reduces your gas mileage by more than 3% and every gallon of gas wasted equates to about 20 lbs. of greenhouse gases.
There are about 220 million cars on the roads in the United States. It’s been estimated that under-inflated tires alone wastes about 3.5 million gallons of gasoline each day! That translates to us using 800 million barrels of crude oil a year.
Getting into the habit of checking your tire pressure once a month can save you hundreds of dollars a year on gas (and tire wear) or more depending on how much you use your car and the environmental effect certainly impacts our threatened planet.
Also, nitrogen tire fill can help with gas costs and pollution and it’s not new. “The Tonight Show’s” host, Jay Leno, is national spokesman for an organization that promotes drivers taking a pro-active stance in helping the earth by reducing the tons of emissions that pour into our atmosphere. (see: www.getnitrogen.org)
Nitrogen tire fill has been used by NASCAR, in airplane tires (including Air Force One) and NASA space shuttle tires for more than a decade. By utilizing nitrogen fill in our own vehicles and in businesses that maintain a fleet of vehicles, the savings can be between 3-10% per tank full of gas per vehicle.
Nitrogen fill lasts longer because the nitrogen molecule is more stable and larger than that of oxygen. It takes longer for it to escape through the porous rubber tire. The result is nitrogen:
• Increases driving safety (under-inflating tires is the number one cause of tire related accidents resulting in accidents, injuries, lost wages, fatalities, etc.)
• saves gas, money & supports a healthier environment
• it extends tire life by diminishing tire wear
• improves the handling of vehicles
• maintains proper tire inflation 3-4 times longer; it’s stability provides more consistent and constant tire pressure therefore reducing maintenance
• minimizes blowouts
• it’s an stable, non-flammable & non-combustible gas diminishing the possibility of fire after a collision
• it’s a dry gas with no corrosive properties like those found in ordinary gas station compressed air
If 85% of us used nitrogen fill, we’d save 3.8 billion gallons of gas per year.
This equates to sparing the earth 76 billion tons of carbon monoxide and other greenhouse gases.
Saving the above 3.8 billion gallons of gas equates to planting 7 million acres of forest.
Nitrogen fill is only about $30.00 for all four tires. If we don’t consider the health of the earth by taking this high tech step, how about each of us plant a tree or two for Earth Day on April 22?
Christian A. Lucero is the COO of 106 St Tire & Wheel in Queens, NY, www.106StTire.com, a four store, family run tire chain now in its second generation of family leadership. Christian’s mother was the first woman to own and operate a tire store on Long Island. Follow 106 St. Tire & Wheel on our social network at www.106StTire & Wheel, see tool bar for COMMUNITY or follow us on www.facebook.com/106st
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