Best Offbeat Ways to Get Around Town without a Car

Even in the face of ballooning gas prices and unchecked global warming, Americans are still out there drivin' it up, almost as much as ever. For example, according to Reuters, as of 2007, 87 percent of us still drove to work every day. That's millions upon millions of cars clogging the highways and roads across the country, just spewing greenhouse gas emissions whichever way they please. We have access to buses and trains, but apparently we don't use them. Maybe it's time we Americans banded together and found some creative alternative solutions to the problem. Inspired by this notion, I whipped up a list of the 4 most offbeat (yet fully functional) ways we could all get around town.

So unbuckle your seatbelts. Here are the top 4 alternative ways to get around town: