US stats.
http://www.gristmagazine.com/counter/counter022603.asp?source=daily 26 Feb 2003 Overdrive * 214,000,000 -- number of vehicles in the U.S. [1 * 290,000,000 -- number of people in the U.S. [2 * 2 -- number of American cars on the Top 20 list in "The Greenest Vehicles of 2003," produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (the other 18 are Japanese) [3 * 22,802 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 1983 [4 * 34,459 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 1995 [5 * 24,902 -- circumference of the Earth, in miles [6 * 19 -- percentage of the average U.S. household budget devoted to transportation [7 * 50 -- percentage increase in cars and trucks on the road between 1970 and 1990 [8 * 19,000,000 -- number of trips taken per day in the U.S. on public transportation [9 * 1,000,000,000 -- number of trips taken per day in the U.S. via all means of transport [10 * 5,170 -- amount, in dollars, the average motorist paid to drive a car 15,000 miles in 1990 [11 * 1,600 -- number of hours the average American male devotes to his car each year [12 * 54,000,000 to 232,400,000,000 -- estimated cost, in dollars, of automobile pollution in the U.S. each year [13 * 18 -- average fuel economy, in miles per gallon, of SUVs and pickup trucks on U.S. roads [14 * 700 -- estimated cost, in dollars per vehicle, to achieve fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon [15 -- by Jim Motavalli Sources: 1. Earth Policy Institute. http://www.earth-policy.org/Alerts/Alert12.htm 2. U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock 3. ACEEE Green Book. http://www.greenercars.com/12green.html 4. Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/1995/index.html 5. Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/1995/index.html 6. Planet Pals. http://www.planetpals.com/planet2.html 7. Progress, February 2003, newsletter of the Surface Transportation Policy Project. http://www.transact.org/progress.asp 8. Holtz Kay, Jane, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Crown), 1997. Page 16. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=0520216202 9. Holtz Kay, Jane, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Crown), 1997. Page 16. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=0520216202 10. U.S. Department of Transportation data, cited in Motavalli, Jim, Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books), 2001. Page 9. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=1578050391 11. U.S. Department of Transportation data, cited in Motavalli, Jim, Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books), 2001. Page 9. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=1578050391 12. American Automobile Association, quoted in Nadis, Steve and MacKenzie, James J., Car Trouble (Boston: Beacon Press), 1993. Page 9. http://www.carbusters.org/freesources/stats.php 13. Alvord, Katie, Divorce Your Car! (Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers), 2000. Page 108. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=0865714088 14. The Detroit Project. http://www.thedetroitproject.com/readmore/talkingpoints.htm 15. ACEEE, quoted in Doyle, Jack, Taken for a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows), 2000. Page 259. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25450&cgi=product&is bn=1568581475 - - - - - - - - - Jim Motavalli is editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, a regular contributor to the New York Times, and author of Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
