silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago81 Democrats call on Biden administration to pursue tighter climate standards for heavy-duty trucksthehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down10
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-link81 Democrats call on Biden administration to pursue tighter climate standards for heavy-duty trucksthehill.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoUS heavy-duty trucks: 417 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in 2021 Global shipiping (of which about 40% is shipping fossil fuels around, and most of which doesn’t go to or from the US): ~700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in 2021 So yeah, this is just a bunch of whataboutism and not a meaningful critique.
US heavy-duty trucks: 417 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in 2021
Global shipiping (of which about 40% is shipping fossil fuels around, and most of which doesn’t go to or from the US): ~700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) in 2021
So yeah, this is just a bunch of whataboutism and not a meaningful critique.