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Saw an article the other day that stated roughly 40% of shipping is moving fossil fuels around the globe, so using less fossil fuels has a double bonus
by youngtaff 4y ago
Saw an article the other day that stated roughly 40% of shipping is moving fossil fuels around the globe, so using less fossil fuels has a double bonus
- thatcherc 4y agoThat's a big takeaway I got from the book Electrify by Saul Griffith (a really good read). The book only really looks at US carbon emissions, but a substantial chunk of emissions comes from refining and transporting petroleum projects -- these are emissions that occur just to prepare gasoline to be burned! Switching to electric cars (or just fewer cars) has the same double bonus as you mentioned in that there's less tailpipe emissions and less petro processing and transportation emissions as well.