Transportation Sector
Atlantic
Table 10: Passenger Road Transportation Secondary Energy Use and GHG Emissions by Energy Source
  2000   2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Passenger Road Transportation Energy Use (PJ) 88.8   83.8 97.2 101.6 98.8 95.3 92.3 76.3 77.2

Energy Use by Energy Source (PJ)
Electricity 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Natural Gas 0.0   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2
Motor Gasoline 81.2   76.1 90.9 95.6 93.7 90.0 87.1 73.1 74.2
Diesel Fuel Oil 7.5   5.9 6.0 5.8 4.8 5.0 5.0 2.9 2.7
Ethanol n.a.   1.6 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Biodiesel Fuel 0.0   n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Propane 0.1   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Electricity 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Natural Gas 0.0   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Motor Gasoline 91.4   90.8 93.5 94.1 94.9 94.4 94.3 95.8 96.1
Diesel Fuel Oil 8.4   7.1 6.2 5.7 4.8 5.2 5.4 3.9 3.6
Ethanol n.a.   1.9 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Biodiesel Fuel 0.0   n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Propane 0.1   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Activity
Passenger-kilometres (millions) 46,310   47,108 54,778 57,397 56,529 54,570 52,979 44,659 45,220
Energy Intensity (MJ/Pkm) 1.92   1.78 1.77 1.77 1.75 1.75 1.74 1.71 1.71
Passenger Road Transportation GHG Emissions Excluding Electricity (Mt of CO2e) 6.3   5.6 6.5 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.2 5.4 5.4

GHG Emissions by Energy Source (Mt of CO2e)
Electricity –   – – – – – – – –
Natural Gas 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Motor Gasoline 5.7   5.1 6.1 6.4 6.3 6.0 5.8 5.1 5.2
Diesel Fuel Oil 0.5   0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2
Ethanol n.a.   0.1 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Biodiesel Fuel 0.0   n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Propane 0.0   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Shares (%)
Electricity –   – – – – – – – –
Natural Gas 0.0   0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Motor Gasoline 91.4   90.4 93.2 93.8 94.7 94.2 94.1 95.8 96.1
Diesel Fuel Oil 8.5   7.5 6.6 6.0 5.1 5.5 5.7 3.9 3.6
Ethanol n.a.   1.9 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Biodiesel Fuel 0.0   n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Propane 0.1   0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
GHG Intensity (tonne/TJ) 70.5   67.3 67.3 67.3 67.2 67.2 67.2 70.1 70.1

Footnotes:

1) Data on GHG emissions are presented excluding GHG emissions related to electricity production.

n.a. - Denotes data that is not applicable.
n.a. - Denotes data that is not available.