Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita. Gasoline consumption per capita was calculated using the population estimates in the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States. Therefore, the table below shows the consumptions per capita for selected years between 1965 and 2020. Consumption per capita (gallons).
Green Car Congress
MAY 31, 2014
teragrams per year in 2007 (+72%). Historical annual BC emissions in the residential sector (A), industrial sector (B), and motor vehicles (C) from 1960 to 2007. After 1988, the total emissions leveled off but seem to increase again since the mid-1990s to reach another peak of 2,956 Gg in 2006. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 21, 2011
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waived a limitation on selling gasoline that contains more than 10% ethanol for model year (MY) 2001 through 2006 passenger vehicles, including cars, SUVs, and light pickup trucks. On 13 October 2010, EPA had approved a waiver allowing the use of E15 for MY 2007 and newer cars and light trucks.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2013
VMT per capita has declined across the US (2006 to 2011). Among the report’s national findings: The proportion of workers commuting by private vehicle—either alone or in a carpool—declined in 99 out of 100 of America’s most populous urbanized areas between 2000 and the 2007-2011 period averaged in US Census data.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2010
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a waiver for fuel containing up to 15% ethanol (E15) for model year 2007 and newer cars and light trucks. Currently, there is an overall 10 volume percent (vol%) ethanol blend limit (the “blend wall”) in gasoline. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
June saw the return of the Arctic dipole anomaly, an atmospheric pressure pattern that contributed to the record sea ice loss in 2007. million square kilometers (498,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average and 190,000 square kilometers (73,000 square miles) below the previous record low for the month of 11.06 per decade.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was the third lowest for that month in the satellite record, after 2007 and 2006, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado. The average rate of melt in July 2009 was nearly identical to that of the record melt of July 2007. Credit: NSIDC.
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