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Transportation for the 21 st Century “Beyond Oil with Green Transportation”

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 21 st Century “Beyond Oil with Green Transportation”

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  1. Transportation for the 21st Century “Beyond Oil with Green Transportation” Featuring Michael Brune

  2. The Sierra Club is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. photos: Sierra Club

  3. Michael BruneSierra Club Executive Director

  4. Oil 28,000 42-gallon barrels, representing the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes.

  5. Transportation- mostly cars- consumes majority of oil in the U.S. MBPD (million barrels per day)

  6. 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

  7. America pays a heavy price for the gasoline in our vehicles

  8. Oil is the leader in federal subsidies Graph:Tommy McCall/Environmental Law Institute

  9. 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

  10. http://action.sierraclub.org/transportationactivists Photo: Sierra Club North Star Chapter

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