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Federal Government: CO2 Emissions Growing from Transportation Sector

For as long as the government has been keeping track of such things, the amount of greenhouse gases put into the environment by the transportation sector has grown year by year. Growing at almost the same speed has been the amount of miles people travel in their cars. With CA spending more and more efforts to deal with vehicle emission standards, it is worth noting that one of the easiest ways to reduce Carbon and other Greenhouse emissions is to reduce people's need to drive their cars.

Just something to think about when Governor Greenhouse releases his budget for next year.
To read the entire report from the Energy Information Administration, click here. The transportation page is #23 of the pdf.

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