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4. The US' "long-running love affair with gas guzzling cars"

Fri Jul 13, 2012, 09:33 AM

Jul 2012

Medal power house America was humbled, dragged down to ninth place because of its long-running love affair with gas-guzzling cars.

Can't be - even DUers insist that their choice to drive whatever vehicle they like is of no concern to anyone else. Obviously some bogus study.

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UK ranked most energy efficient of world's largest economies [View all] alp227 Jul 2012 OP

The Acutal American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Report happyslug Jul 2012 #1

Yet the US is currently #1 in total CO2 reductions. Psephos Jul 2012 #2

That's a reduction from an amount that had grown since 1990 muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #3

Only in the last few years muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #10

The US produces nearly 2x the CO2 per capita of the UK Spider Jerusalem Jul 2012 #5

I posted about relative reductions in CO2 production. Psephos Jul 2012 #7

Thats aggregate : not / capita. dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #9

However, aggregate, not per-capita, has the largest global impact... Psephos Jul 2012 #12

The US' "long-running love affair with gas guzzling cars" primavera Jul 2012 #4

A substantially higher population density does wonders 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #6