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Transforming Transportation

In: Global Energy Transformation

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  • Mats Larsson

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The challenge of creating sustainable energy systems is greater in transportation than in other areas. Twenty-seven percent of US energy consumption is used for transportation and the sector is heavily dependent on a few very convenient and potent fuels that are based on petroleum as a raw material. Global oil production amounts to 85 million barrels per day. Ninety percent of global transportation is based on oil as the energy source and 60 percent of all oil that is consumed globally is used for transportation.1 We have been able to pump oil up from the ground or the bottom of the sea in large volumes at low cost for more than 100 years. This convenience, and the prospect of continuing to increase petroleum production for more number of years into the future, has made us complacent. Many of us, however, are starting to see an urgent need to develop high-volume replacements. To many this need has previously not been as obvious as it is now, with signs of “peak oil”.

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  • Mats Larsson, 2009. "Transforming Transportation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Global Energy Transformation, chapter 0, pages 208-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24409-2_18
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230244092_18
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