Vt. Transportation Energy Report just released

[Janice St. Onge]

Thought folks might be interested in this....

From UVM Transportation Center... We have just released our annual
Vermont Transportation Energy Report.

The 2010 Vermont Transportation Energy Report estimates that total
expenditures on transportation were almost $4 billion dollars in that
year, comprising approximately 15% of Vermont’s economy. More than a
billion dollars of this spending was for the purchase of gasoline and
diesel fuels. Municipal spending on transportation was also sizable,
on average comprising 41% of each town’s budget. Vehicle purchases
continued to climb in 2010, especially of hybrid vehicles, which now
comprise 4% of the state’s fleet. Additional analysis in this report
estimates the feasibility of electric vehicles to meet Vermonters’
travel needs: 68- 96% of vehicles could be substituted with electric
vehicles even with no away-from-home charging infrastructure.
Financial savings of such a fuel switch could be substantial. At 2010
prices, the total annual energy costs for an entirely electric fleet
would be approximately $274 million for the state of Vermont, less
than a third the amount spent on petroleum fuels in 2010.

You can view the full report at: http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/trc_reports/UVM-TRC-11-007.pdf