• blazera@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The largest source of emissions in the US is personal vehicles. We are car obsessed. I post a building thats more car storage than home and everyone here wants it. Bigger, louder, more roads, more parking.

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      1 year ago

      No, the largest source is transportation. That includes personal vehicles but also trucks, ships, trains and aeroplanes.

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        1 year ago

        Personal vehicles make up the bulk of that. Its like saying Mississippi doesnt have the highest rate of obesity because US has more.

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          1 year ago

          Sure. So 30% of emissions are due to transportation and about half of that is private vehicles. That makes the emissions caused by private vehicles to be about 15% of the total number.

          Not insignificant but not quite the whole story either. Wouldn’t still go as far as to say it’s the “largest source”