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July 1, 2006
When you're thinking
about air pollution,
don't obsess about Many people who feel
transportation. trapped in cars seem
to also feel a deep These people are
guilt about the suckers for ideas
poison spewing out the like "electric
When you're thinking tail pipe, and because vehicles".
about transportation, they feel direct
don't obsess about responsibilty for it, Half of the
air pollution. to their credit, they electricity
want to find ways to in the US
I'm a big advocate make it go away. is generated
of busses & trains by coal: it's
and bikes & walking. incredibly
dirty.
These have the Thesis: if you
potential to look at the If your electric
reduce air pollution, breakdowns, per socket is coal
but that isn't quantity of in disguise, it's
their only advantage, energy or per cleaner to burn
and it may not be quantity of gasoline.
their biggest pollution,
advantage. transportation COAL_POWERED_CARS
is not the
biggest
problem.
And if you break down
I've heard transportation further,
the figure private cars will not
quoted: be a large chunk of it.
40% of US
energy use But possibly a
is tranport- "disproportionate
ation. share" of it.
((find more (but
data.)) proportional
to what?).
(June 15, 2009)
There's a factoid
going around that
half of the Bay
Area's energy usage
is transport related.
At a guess, that's a very shallow
figure: since we export a lot
of our manufacturing now, a lot
of our energy use happens elsewhere.
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