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| Topics Arts & Humanities and Entertainment Literature, Movies, Humor, Music Business & Economy Finance,Jobs, Computers & Internet, Oil Education College and University, K-12... Government Elections, Military, Law, Taxes Health Medicine, Diseases, Drugs, Fitness... News & Media Newspapers, TV Science Social Science and Society Archaeology, Economics, Languages, Environment, Religion... |
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| Nuggets (items and short phrases for the next millennium) |
| Millennium Course (taught by Jack Latona) |
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| Arts & Humanities and Entertainment Literature, Movies, Humor, Music Business & Economy Finance,Jobs, Computers & Internet Education College and University, K-12... Government Elections, Military, Law, Taxes Health Medicine, Diseases, Drugs, Fitness... News & Media Newspapers, TV Science Social Science and Society Archaeology, Economics, Languages, Environment, Religion... |
| Nuggets (items and short phrases for the next millennium) |
| Millennium Course (taught by Jack Latona) |
| Creating the Future Course Outline (taught by Jack Latona) |
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| Your Homework: Answer this question. How much of the current rise in gasoline prices is the result of people switching to SUV's, which get half of the fuel economy that their previous cars got? www.energy.gov ONE ANSWER appears here on the Newsletter for May 2001 |
| Newsletter for May 2001 |
| References are to tables that appear in the Transportation Energy Data Book, ORNL-6959, edition 20, edited by Stacy C. Davis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory www.ornl.gov www-cta.ornl.gov/data |
| Useful Websites American Automobile Association www.aaa.com Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas (Industry group formed by major car makers) www.evaa.org US Department of Transportation www.dot.gov Bureau of Transportation Statistics www.bts.gov Federal Highway Administration www.fhwa.dot.gov US Environmental Protection Agency www.epa.gov Ward's Auto (car information) www.wardsauto.com Texas Transportation Institute tti.tamu.edu California Energy Commission www.energy.ca.gov American Public Transportation Association www.apta.com Fuel Economy www.fueleconomy.gov |
Year Gasoline used Number of vehicle registrations |
1992 111 billion gallons 126 million vehicles |
1999 124 billion gallons 131 million vehicles |
DIFFERENCE 13 billion gallons 5 million vehicles |
| Annual use of a typical car 11,800 miles per year Table 11.11 Gasoline used at 25 mpg 472 Gasoline used at 10 mpg 1180 Difference 708 gallons per vehicle |
| Roughly 11.5 million light-duty trucks were purchased between 1992 and 1999 that previously probably would have been cars. (These light-duty trucks consume 708 gallons more each year than a typical car would have consumed): 7.8 billion gallons of the 13-billion increase can be attributed to the switch to light-duty trucks that hit the road between 1992 and 1999. Note: It is difficult to separate out which vehicles were replaced (either light-duty trucks or cars), but the significant increase in new light-duty truck purchases suggests that most of the new vehicles added to the road were light-duty vehicles. Roughly 74 million new vehicles were purchased between 1995 and 1999. That's 12.5 million vehicles more than the buying trend in 1992. 11.5 million of that increase were light-duty trucks. If those vehicles had been typical cars, roughly 8 billion gallons of gasoline would not be demanded. Demand for gasoline would be roughly 6 percent lower than it is today if light-duty trucks were switched to cars. |
| New CAR Change since sales 1992 (millions) (8.2 million) 1995 8.6 0.4 1996 8.5 0.3 1997 8.2 0 1998 8.1 -0.1 1999 8.6 0.4 TOTAL 41.0 1.0 million new cars (increase in the buying rate in 1992) |
| New LIGHT Change since TRUCK sales 1992 (millions) (4.6 million) 1995 6.0 1.4 1996 6.5 1.9 1997 6.8 2.2 1998 7.3 2.7 1999 8.0 3.4 TOTAL 33.6 11.5 million new light trucks (increase in the buying rate in 1992) |
| Between 1995 and 1999, 33.6 million light duty trucks were sold -- 11.5 million more than the buying trend in 1992. |
| Overview: 5 million additional vehicles should consume about 2.5 billion additional gallons of gasoline. Since the new consumption rose 13 billion, 90 percent of the increase must be coming from other sources. |