Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator.

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Oil-Sands Oil 2010 Production 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. CO 2 remains in the atmosphere for up to a century.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% by Jack Rosebro. ” [ 1 ].

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating. The consumption of oil products increased by 1.7% Climate Change Emissions' in 2013 and 3.4%

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2013 Emissions Global CO2 240

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2011

In terms of fuels, 44% of the estimated CO 2 emissions in 2010 came from coal, 36% from oil, and 20% from natural gas. Global leaders agreed a target of limiting temperature increase to 2 °C at the UN climate change talks in Cancun in 2010. Some scientists suggest the level must be even lower—i.e., Earlier post.).

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2010 Emissions 2020 CO2 257

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

The California Air Resources Board’s latest state inventory of greenhouse gas emissions shows that California’s GHG emissions continue to decrease. Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. It does not include emissions from petroleum refineries and oil production. Trends in California GHG Emissions.

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2017 2016 Transportation Emissions 230

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

savings stimulated by high oil prices led to a decrease of 3% in CO 2 emissions in the European Union and of 2% in both the United States and Japan. tonnes per capita, despite a decline due to the recession in 2008-2009, high oil prices and an increased share of natural gas. Global fossil oil consumption increased by about 2.9%

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2011 Emissions CO2 Global 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

Going forward, Ford has set a goal to reduce new-vehicle greenhouse gas emissions in the US and Europe by 30% by 2020, compared to a 2006 model year baseline. “Water, like climate change, is set to be a key issue for the 21 st century. From 2000 to 2008, Ford cut its global water use by 56%, or 9.5 billion gallons.

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Water Ford Climate Change 2000 322

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

The study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70% increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050, assuming continued greenhouse gas emissions with resultant significant warming (IPCC Scenario A2 and RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) 8.5.). Both scenarios assumed continued greenhouse gas emissions with significant warming.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2012

Since 2000, the BP Institute for Multiphase Flow has formed an important part of the relationship and in 2010 BP funded the new McKenzie Chair in Earth Sciences. The University of Cambridge also has a long association with BP.

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International Industrial Industry Energy 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Petrochemicals are rapidly becoming the largest driver of global oil demand. Petrochemicals are set to account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand to 2030, and nearly half the growth to 2050, adding nearly 7 million barrels of oil a day by then. Source: IEA. —Dr Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director.

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Oil Waste Economy Global 281

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

bushels per acre, which represents a 12% increase over the data (1998-2000 average) used in the current US LCI database; Each bushel of soybeans harvested reduces greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalents) by 32.6 kilograms per 1,000 kilograms of oil produced to 2.96 kg (for the 3.36 kg (for the 3.36 kilograms).

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Production 2001 2007 2004 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

Installation of flare gas recovery systems. Implementation of a detailed plan for reducing waste gas to flares. Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. In particular, this settlement will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from flaring at the subject refineries by more than 60%.

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Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii 150

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. They need to know they won’t have to do a smog check or an oil change, or replace a timing belt.” “And

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San Francisco Minivan Purchase Gas-Electric 94

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. The highest variations are observed for biodiesel from palm oil and soya. Click to enlarge.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The draft report identifies six key drivers of transformation in the region: technical progress; capital accumulation; demographics and the labor force; the emerging middle class; climate change mitigation and the competition for resources; and the communications revolution. Energy consumption.

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Asia Indonesia Financing Bangladesh 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The stepped bowl has a positive effect on the combustion process, the thermal loading of critical areas of the pistons and the introduction of soot into the engine oil. The new engine is equipped with multi-way exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). A two-stage feedback-controlled oil pump circulates the engine oil.

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Gasoline Mercedes Engine Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

The latest North Sea licensing round for oil and gas drilling has broken all previous records for the number of applications received by the UK Government. The UK’s oil and gas sector still provides almost half of the country’s energy and is by far the largest single industrial UK investor.

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2000 Climate Change Oil Mariner 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

reported a breakthrough in their joint research ( earlier post ) into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain that more than doubled its oil content without significantly inhibiting the strain’s growth. Slower growth has been an adverse effect of previous attempts to increase algae oil production volume.

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Production Oil Carbon Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. —Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. a year from now to 2050.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The theme of the current issue of Nature is that the climate situation may be even worse than you think. Two possible futures: One in which no climate policies are implemented (red), and one with strong action to mitigate emissions (blue). Greenhouse gas emissions of this pathway in year 2050 are ~70% below 1990 levels.

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Climate Change Global Climate Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

As of 12 February, a new bushfire threatened the Yarra Valley’s Thompson Reservoir, which supplies water to the city, as well as the Longford oil and natural gas plant. Bushfires can produce their own volatile gases and oils, adding fuel to the fire. David Jones, head of the BOM’s National Climate Centre.

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Australia Climate Change Water 2009 150

Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

The freed-up 240V space in the breaker box is perfect timing for those people replacing their pollution-spewing oil/gas heaters with heat pumps/geothermal or adding an electric vehicle outlet or two in their garage. If you live in a temperate climate and leave your screen door open all year, that’s not a big deal.

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Clean Cleaning Water 2000 52

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The “wet” part of the Santa Fe’s DCT means it uses oil to improve lubrication and cooling. A “dry” DCT does not use oil, but is the more fuel efficient of the two types. The first Santa Fe debuted in 2000 as a small SUV. We also feature those efficient gas-powered vehicles that are among the top mpg vehicles in their class.

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Hyundai MPG Fuel Economy Clean 69

Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

As our planet’s atmosphere overheats because the greenhouse gas firewall we’ve built by burning fossil fuels works so damn well, there is one secret weapon we can all still whip out if we want to fight back and try to save ourselves from frying. FOLLOW ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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America Power Powered Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The work also identifies potentially important sectors that are not yet quantified, including use of mercury in vinyl-chloride monomer production; secondary metals production and ferro-alloys; oil and gas extraction and transport; and industrial and some hazardous waste incineration.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. Europe, with its high gas prices, is the most promising export market for BYDs electric cars.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Boone Pickens is spending tens of millions of dollars promoting CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) as the bridge fuel to get the U.S. The Arab oil embargo and price increases of the ‘70s pushed the U.S. Today, less than 2% of American electrons are produced with oil. Natural gas, like petroleum, is not forever.

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Al Gore Gore Gas-Electric Gas 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. It is 12 years later. The management at GM are liars.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41

Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Al Gore Gore Sierra Congress 277

Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Al Gore Gore Sierra Congress 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Economy Los Angeles Climate Change 2008 170