Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

Photo credit: Lorenz.Markus97 / Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Maria Cecilia Pinto de Moura, Senior Vehicles Engineer. Union of Concerned Scientists – September 26, 2022.

In a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in collaboration with consulting firm Evolved Energy Research (EER) and an expert advisory committee, we show that the United States can drastically reduce global warming emissions by replacing a highly polluting transportation sector, powered today primarily with petroleum-based fuels, with a cleaner, more efficient and more equitable system powered primarily by renewable electricity. […]

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