Environment & Energy

Last edited Fri Jul 19, 2024, 09:35 PM - Edit history (1)

It's the other way around. Here is the table in #3 again as it was when you posted
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=175002

Table 1. Total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions by sector, 2019–2023
million metric tons of carbon dioxide
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Sector
311 339 325 319 347 Residential
250 261 245 233 255 Commercial
963 960 977 952 1,007 Industrial
1,856 1,840 1,807 1,630 1,921 Tranportation
1,427 1,542 1,551 1,450 1,618 Electric Power
4,807 4,941 4,905 4,584 5,147 Total

I decided to put it in chronological order, since reverse chronological order is confusing and there's no good reason for it being bassackward. I also added a % increase from 2019 to 2023 column while I'm at it. And to line up the columns. So here is the new table:



As shown in the graphs in #3, these declines are continuations since 2007, so it's not something I feel can be totally blown off as something that occurred because of Covid. But yes, it will get harder as there are fewer coal-fired left to shut down, and expected electrical consumption increases.

And Texas's solar starting from a considerably smaller share of total electricity than California, so yes, I'm glad to see they are in the direction of starting to close that share gap. I'll be giddy bubbly boo about Texas once they reduce their fossil fuel share percentage to below that of California.