{"id":48879,"date":"2025-02-26T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48879"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:27:50","slug":"environment-what-percent-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/environment-what-percent-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment: what percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about greenhouse gas emissions: the tutor mentions figures from the US.<\/h2>\n<p>\nPart of modern living is driving. Yet, does it fit with a net-zero (emissions) mindset?<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the US, transportation causes about 28% of greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, light duty vehicles produce about 57%. Therefore about 16% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the US come from light duty vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change\/carbon-pollution-transportation#:~:text=%E2%80%8BGreenhouse%20gas%20(GHG)%20emissions,contributor%20of%20U.S.%20GHG%20emissions.\">epa.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about greenhouse gas emissions: the tutor mentions figures from the US. Part of modern living is driving. Yet, does it fit with a net-zero (emissions) mindset? In the US, transportation causes about 28% of greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/environment-what-percent-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-cars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Environment: what percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from cars?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,3260],"tags":[3550,3236],"class_list":["post-48879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","tag-driving","tag-emissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48884,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48879\/revisions\/48884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}