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Transportation for the 21 st Century “Beyond Oil with Green Transportation” Featuring Michael Brune. The Sierra Club is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. photos: Sierra Club. Michael Brune Sierra Club Executive Director. Oil.
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Transportation for the 21st Century “Beyond Oil with Green Transportation” Featuring Michael Brune
The Sierra Club is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. photos: Sierra Club
Oil 28,000 42-gallon barrels, representing the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes.
Transportation- mostly cars- consumes majority of oil in the U.S. MBPD (million barrels per day)
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Pollution Agriculture 7% Cars & light trucks 17% Industry 19% Heavy trucks, ships, rail 8% Aircraft 2% Residential & commercial 11% Electric power 35% – U.S. EPA data for 2008 Graph: Darrell Clarke
Oil is the leader in federal subsidies Graph:Tommy McCall/Environmental Law Institute
Solutions • Ensuring that national policy is accountable for reducing oil consumption • Investing in transportation choices • Creating livable communities • Calling for 60 mpg standards by 2025 and vehicle electrification photos: Sierra Club, Darrell Clarke
http://action.sierraclub.org/transportationactivists Photo: Sierra Club North Star Chapter