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Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Despite adding six million more passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs to the roads over the last 10 years, California’s gasoline consumption has dropped over two billion gallons from its peak in 2005. Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024.

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 CNRL) , he stands at the helm of one of Canada’s largest oil producers, all while raking in profits like there’s no tomorrow—quite literally, as the future looks increasingly bleak for our planet. million homes’ electricity use for a year!

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

The factor that quantifies this effect is called the ‘efficacy’ of the forcing, which for the most part is reasonably close to one, and so doesn’t change the zeroth-order picture (Hansen et al, 2005). This means that climate forcings can be simply added to approximate the net effect. Myhre, E.J. Highwood, and K.P.

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Carbon dioxide and methane (a short-lived but extremely powerful global warming gas) are emitted during the extraction, processing, storage, transportation and combustion of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels used by our vehicles. We have over 284 million gasoline- and diesel-burning cars, trucks and buses on our roads.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Fighting to Help Black People—and Others—Keep Their Land

Union of Concerned Scientists

As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

I dug into this complexity with my energy colleagues in the context of their recent analysis of pathways for how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. That analysis assumed the U.S.