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AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. As gasoline prices fell starting in late 2014, motorists logged an additional 2.7

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MAY 20, 2009

in 2008 to 5,802 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO 2 ), down from 5,967 MMTCO 2 in 2007, according to preliminary estimates released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Only one other year in the 1990 to 2008 time period experienced a decline: 1.2% Motor gasoline accounts for 58.7% Source: EIA.

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JUNE 26, 2009

in 2008, against 3.3% billion tonnes in 2008. In particular in the US, where gasoline prices almost doubled in the summer of 2008 compared to 2007 levels, oil consumption dropped 7% decrease. Moreover, had 2008 not been a leap year—giving it an extra day—fuel consumption and emissions would have been even 0.3

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MAY 25, 2010

Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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MARCH 17, 2010

This will include new investment in a host of incremental improvements to conventional gasoline powered internal combustion engines, from new controls for valves and timing, to variable speed transmissions and advanced electronics. By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

For 2008, the EIA reported a 3.2% decrease in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuels in 2008. Although little change in CO 2 emissions from motor gasoline is expected in 2009, CO 2 emissions from other transportation petroleum fuels, particularly jet fuel (a 9.8% Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

As a result of these regulations, 2025 model year vehicles will consume up to 50% less fuel than 2008 vehicles leading to significant savings at the pump. With these amendments, Canada is proposing to establish more stringent US Tier 3 vehicle and fuel standards to provide cleaner air to Canadians.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Overall, we have substantial opportunities for reducing environmental and climate impacts from light-duty road vehicles. Values normalized to standard naturally-aspirated gasoline engine vehicle. Includes vehicle weight reduction: at constant acceleration capability. BP, Chevron, Concawe, the Department of Energy U.S.-China

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APRIL 27, 2012

While representatives of the palm oil industry have protested that the EPA findings are too harsh, correcting the analysis to reflect the more up-to-date information on the destruction of peatland suggests that palm oil biodiesel could be more climate-damaging than fuel from the Canadian oil sands. Chris Malins.

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MAY 6, 2010

between 2008 and 2009. from 2008 to 2009 while the comparable price of natural gas fell 48% on a per Btu basis. The average decline in energy intensity from 2000 to 2008 was 2.0%. Emissions by end-use sector, 2008 and 2009. lower than 2008. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7%

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JANUARY 29, 2010

It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. In 2008, 64% agreed with that; in 2007, 63%; and in 2006, 62% agreed. Source: DfT.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. smog and particulates. California’s current LEV II emission standards run through 2010.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

By 2030, the study concludes, low-carbon fuels could replace more than a quarter of the gasoline and diesel used by vehicles in the Pacific Coast region by 2030, with a reduction in the overall carbon intensity of on-road transportation fuels of 14%–21%. Oregon and Washington are both working toward the adoption of Clean Fuels Standards.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

Just about one year ago on July 2, 2008 I was on Larry Mantle’s “Airtalk&# (KPCC-FM 89.3 While the Confederacy of Dunces rules the media spotlight, the climate crisis has only worsened since the days of $4.60 a gallon gasoline. Pasadena) talking about getting my electric car and my solar panels. radio listeners.

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MARCH 27, 2017

According to the EIA, the 2015 increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector was led by gasoline. The 28% decrease in gasoline prices (in nominal dollars) from 2014 to 2015, along with the continued economic recovery, led to higher fuel consumption. from 2014 levels.

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APRIL 16, 2012

From 2008 to 2009, CO 2 emissions from the transportation end-use sector declined 4%, due largely to decreased economic activity in 2009 and an associated decline in the demand for transportation. Nearly 65% of the emissions resulted from gasoline consumption. for personal vehicle use.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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MARCH 11, 2014

From the perspective of mobility zones based on travel distance, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles can match the everyday usability of a current gasoline car, and become mainstream environmentally friendly vehicles. “Toyota believes that environmentally friendly vehicles can only truly have a positive impact if they are widely used.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Key to realizing the potential role for hydrogen in transportation is automakers’ continuing commitment to hydrogen FCVs as a necessary complement to plug-in electric vehicles and a critical component of their long-term strategy to provide vehicles that contribute to energy and climate policy goals. Public funding.

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JULY 11, 2013

The introduction of new energy technologies in road transport will mean that the current tailpipe measures of the climate impact of vehicles will become increasingly inadequate in future. All vehicles are based on the “average mid-sized gasoline” car as detailed in a 2008 JRC IMPRO-car study. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2010

However, climate models to date have mischaracterized the effects of soot in the atmosphere, according to Jacobson, director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Jacobson at Stanford University. Dessler et al.,

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JANUARY 6, 2010

The bill mandated ambitious production targets of 9 billion gallons of biofuels a year in 2008, rising to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022. Rather, it is uncertain whether existing biofuels production provides any beneficial improvement over traditional gasoline, after taking into account land use changes and emissions of nitrous oxide.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

I originally wrote and published this piece in June of 2008 under the title “The Cat Is On The Roof – This Joke is at YOUR Expense…&#. Today, on this very special Blog Action Day Creative Greenius, I take you back to June of 2008 and ask you: What the hell have YOU been doing for the past 12 months? I understand.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand. These were arguably the first flex-fuel vehicles.

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MARCH 6, 2010

We congratulate the auto industry in Brazil for its vision and the boldness shown when it chose to invest heavily in Flex technology, to the point that many of these industries do not even produce vehicles powered exclusively by gasoline any more. In 2008, Brazil produced an estimated 565 million metric tons of sugarcane, which yielded 31.3

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APRIL 18, 2011

From 2008 to 2009, CO 2 emissions from the transportation end-use sector declined 4%. Almost all of the energy consumed for transportation was supplied by petroleum-based products, with more than half being related to gasoline consumption in automobiles and other highway vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

53% say climate change is the world’s biggest problem. By comparison, 66% of those polled have owned a gasoline engine vehicle and 38% have owned a diesel engine vehicle. These include: simTD (Safe Intelligent Mobility – Testfield Germany)—a joint research project supported by the German government that began in 2008.

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JUNE 10, 2013

In this paper, we investigate variation in life cycle cost and emission benefits of hybrid and plug-in vehicles under a range of driving conditions with a sensitivity analysis to critical factors such as gasoline prices, vehicle costs and electricity grid mix. —Karabasoglu and Michalek. Life-cycle cost. —Karabasoglu and Michalek.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

The technology pathways are intended to show the different cost impacts of achieving different levels of stringency, if the industry were to place more or less emphasis on hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric vehicles as compared to advanced gasoline technologies and vehicle mass reduction. hybrids, and electric vehicles. Pathways B and C.

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JULY 12, 2010

The UK projects to be supported cover research and development for Ford’s commercial vehicles such as the Transit and Connect vans and the development of low carbon emission diesel and gasoline engines. This includes investment in production facilities for new lower carbon engines in Bridgend.

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JUNE 22, 2009

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), global CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere should be stabilized below 450 ppm, Nissan noted. Introduction of an original EV test vehicle in August 2008. The reduction target was 7%. Reducing Other Emissions.

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MARCH 8, 2010

The gasoline prices that achieve these reductions are in the range of $7-9/gal, however, which is considerably higher than the American public has been historically willing to tolerate. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels. Tags: Climate Change Electric (Battery) Emissions Fuel Efficiency Hybrids Plug-ins Policy.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Energy densities of various metal–air battery systemsGravimetric and volumetric energy densities of various metal–air battery systems in comparison with Li-ion batteries and conventional gasoline. — Dr. Hermann Tempel from Jülich’s Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-9). Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / H.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Neither the Kyoto Protocol, nor the existing or proposed climate legislation in Europe and the United States, currently applies limits to emissions from land use such as deforestation. There is undeniable evidence that the climate concerns we face have been caused in large measure by the reckless use of finite fossil fuel resources.

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MARCH 24, 2009

In the paper “ Cap and Trade is Not Enough: Improving US Climate Policy ”, the authors argue that the US Congress should simultaneously design, integrate and implement these targeted strategies: For automobiles. Rubin (2009) Cap and Trade is Not Enough: Improving US Climate Policy. Constantine Samaras, Jay Apt, Inês L.

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