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By entering your individual values into the EarthEra carbon calculator, you can compare your actual carbon dioxide emissions to the emissions of other unique scenarios.
In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a calculator to estimate carbon reduction equivalencies.
For example, if you entered that your household drives three passenger vehicles per year; this alone is equivalent to:
- 1,859 gallons of gasoline consumed
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of 2.2 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy use of 1.4 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from 683 propane cylinders used for home barbeques
According to data from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the average American lives in a single home with a detached garage, drives a large car approximately 12,900 miles a year and travels via plane an average 17.2 hours per year. From this collective data, we calculated that the average American emits 18.8 tons of CO2 per year with one vehicle and 23.3 tons of CO2 with a second vehicle. This information allows us to assume that the calculated results equal:
One Vehicle
- 2,134 gallons of gasoline consumed
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of 2.5 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy use of 1.7 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from 783 propane cylinders used for home barbeques
Two Vehicles
- 2,645 gallons of gasoline consumed
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of 3.1 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy use of 2.1 homes for one year
- Carbon dioxide emissions from 971 propane cylinders used for home barbeques
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