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Re: Hedges tracking Kunstler
Not strictly correct. If all we do is reduce US transportation energy expenditure, this doesn't affect primary energy consumption for other sectors to a significant degree.
It is also a fallacy to assume that a reduction in personal energy consumption must also reduce overall energy consumption. A mass transfer to public transit, for example, would reduce personal energy consumption in transport but would increase other transport energy consumption.
Lastly it is also false to assume that even less consumption of material goods would lead to a concomitant reduction in transport energy: half empty trucks consume almost the same fuel as a full one, and the basic requirement to truck goods into far flung retail outlets (as well as for consumers to reach them) remains.
Be that as it may - I'm still curious where you get your numbers from. The link you refer to specifically notes that residential use is only 22% with all of Transport being only 28%. Less than half by any stretch of imagination - which is what I said originally.
Originally posted by BadJuJu
It is also a fallacy to assume that a reduction in personal energy consumption must also reduce overall energy consumption. A mass transfer to public transit, for example, would reduce personal energy consumption in transport but would increase other transport energy consumption.
Lastly it is also false to assume that even less consumption of material goods would lead to a concomitant reduction in transport energy: half empty trucks consume almost the same fuel as a full one, and the basic requirement to truck goods into far flung retail outlets (as well as for consumers to reach them) remains.
Be that as it may - I'm still curious where you get your numbers from. The link you refer to specifically notes that residential use is only 22% with all of Transport being only 28%. Less than half by any stretch of imagination - which is what I said originally.
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