Transportation's Role in Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...

Transportation's Role in Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Volume 1
Figure 4.1 Impacts of Cap and Trade on GHG Emissions by Sector
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (2009). Energy Market and
Economic Impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/hr2454/index.html.
Note: The estimates for industrial, commercial, residential, and transportation do not include emissions
from electricity as electricity emissions are counted under electric power.
In the long run, as rising allowance prices increase petroleum prices and cost
effective solutions in other sectors have been exhausted, the impacts on the
transportation sector are likely to increase. Depending on the availability of
international offsets or lower-cost emission reductions in other sectors, it may be
difficult if not impossible to achieve significant GHG reductions without GHG
emission cuts in the transportation sector, since as Section 2.0 shows, the sector
accounts for 29 percent138 of U.S. GHG emissions.
138 Including bunker fuels, or 28 percent not including bunker fuels.
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