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Funny thing how oil automatically translates to cars and SUVs in ears of most consumers, while in reality transportatino sector consumes only about 18% of oil,
by tx 18y ago
Funny thing how oil automatically translates to cars and SUVs in ears of most consumers, while in reality transportatino sector consumes only about 18% of oil, at least in US. And that includes (!) aviation.
There was an edutorial on the subject by one of C/D editors, that's where I got my number from.
I want gazoline prices to be around $8 to completely eliminate vehicles heavier than 2,200lb, and force lemmings to live closer to the city, but I want oil prices to come down, because it really increases costs of nearly everything. Tax on gazoline looks like a candidate for a solution, although I am never going to support more taxes.
- nostrademons 18y agoHuh? I just read Blood and Oil by Michael Klare. The number given there was 67% for transportation, with 40% of that for individual automobiles (much of the rest is for trucking - aviation is a relatively small component). That also seems to square with various online sources: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/fossil_fuels/offmen-how-oil-works.html http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/fossil_fuels/offmen-how-o... http://cadlab6.mit.edu/2.009.wiki/anchor/index.php?title=Percent_of_world_oil_consumption_used_for_transportation http://cadlab6.mit.edu/2.009.wiki/anchor/index.php?title=Per... http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/getinformed/oilandtransportation http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/getinformed/oilandtransp...