ENVIRON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bakken Pipeline, Ogallala Aquifer, Keystone Pipeline
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Environ 201 lecture 21 transportation and petroleum. How have you used petroleum today: natural gas heating, driving, almost all plastic petroleum derivatives. Not just transportation and energy, petroleum is everywhere. Oil and the environment: petroleum is a fossil fuel, made like coal. Which gets more miles per gallon: 1908 ford model t or 2017 ford taurus. Fuel economy around the world: u. s. makes some of the least economic vehicles. Average gas prices: some of the cheapest in the world. Gas is expensiveor is it: 1 gallon of milk = . 300/gal, 1 gallon of water = . 785/gal, 1 gallon of gas = . 299/gal. Improving fuel efficiency: corporate average fuel economy (cafe) created in 1970s due to the. Purposed to improve fuel economy of passenger vehicles: may lead to increased consumption (the rebound effect a. k. a. Number of vehicles produced worldwide: other countries are catching up to the u. s. Predicting peak oil : currently at diminishing returns.
