Posted on 06/03/2022 10:07:36 AM PDT by FarCenter
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose by 4 percent in the first quarter, as American drivers hit the road in record numbers during the first three months of the year.
U.S. motorists logged 753 billion miles on the road through March, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. That's the highest first-quarter tally since the federal authorities began keeping track in 1970.
The extra miles highlighted the continued recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and came in the face of a run-up in gasoline and diesel prices. In climate terms, the added miles helped drive the ongoing rally in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which rebounded by 6.2 percent in 2021 following a pandemic-induced plunge in 2020.
Carbon Monitor, an academic emissions tracking initiative, estimates U.S. CO2 emissions rose by 52 million tons in the first three months of 2022 compared to the same time last year, bringing total American emissions for the quarter to 1.3 billion tons.
“Just because prices are going up on everything doesn’t mean consumers are changing their behavior yet,” said John Larsen, a partner at the Rhodium Group, an economic consulting firm that tracks emissions. “Either people are not as price sensitive to gas prices as they were or they haven’t hit that wall yet.”
Analysts said one of the big questions going forward is whether sustained high prices will lead to changes in consumer behavior, prompting Americans to drive less or switch to other forms of transportation like electric vehicles.
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I'm surprised at how far people now drive to avoid getting stuck somewhere after flying there.
Scientific American. Another formerly great magazine captured long ago by the left.
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!
Here it comes!!!!
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!
SERPENTINE!!!
Get Queen Greta on the phone, NOW!!!
Well that is going to change…
(U.S. motorists logged 753 billion miles on the road through March, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.)
A Federal Reserve Bank tracks miles driven?
🤔
What about the # of cheeseburgers 🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔 eaten?
right. sounds like ‘covid’ in wastewater tracking.
“Scientific American. Another formerly great magazine captured long ago by the left.”
I used to read it when it actually had real science contained within.
If all of the lefties would hold their breath for a day, it would fix that problem.
Yup. Produced now by German owners. It belongs with formerly respectable journals “Nature” and “Science” in the tabloid section of the magazine rack.
4% rise? Oh my, the horror! Man’s total co2 might jusy go from 0.00136% of the atmosphere to a whopping 0.0013600001%
The problem with flying now is not only higher ticket prices but skyhigh car rental prices.
Yes...for lots of reasons
crashing economy
sky-high Biden prices
recession
banning ICE powered cars
administration killing the petroleum industry
globalists don’t want us to freely travel or own weapons
“ Driving has increased for those avoiding mass transit and air travel.”
1st quarter? Are they sure it was just driving? I burnt more wood to avoid using the nat gas furnace or electric space heaters.
the St Louis Fed hosts FRED. They may well track cheeseburgers.
Welcome to FRED, your trusted source for economic data since 1991.
Download, graph, and track 816,000 US and international time series from 108 sources.
Yet nobody cares or even asks that they be part of the solution to limiting CO2 emissions.
America could disappear and the global CO2 emissions would continue to set records.
These people only seek the destruction of America and the control over your lives.
Don’t forget during the time they were counting miles you had to mask on a plane
Actually, I don’t believe this. I call it another lie.
Carbon dioxide from China is not a greenhouse gas. Neither is carbon dioxide from India. Only carbon dioxide from the United States, Canada and Europe can act as a greenhouse gas. It’s “science”.
(the St Louis Fed hosts FRED)
Ah, OK.
Wondered why they’d be a source for that.
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