Full Title: Guam Transportation Petroleum-Use Reduction Plan
Author(s): Caley Johnson
Publisher(s): National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Publication Date: April 1, 2013
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Description (excerpt):
The island of Guam has set a goal to reduce petroleum use 20% by 2020. Because transportation is responsible for one-third of on-island petroleum use, the Guam Energy Task Force (GETF), a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy and numerous Guam-based agencies and organizations, devised a specific plan by which to meet the 20% goal within the transportation sector. This report lays out GETF’s plan.
The first step to achieving such a goal was to benchmark current fuel use and transportation characteristics. To do this, we (GETF) consolidated key statistics from numerous Guam agencies, surveys, and reports. We found that Guam’s on-road transportation used nearly 60 million gallons of petroleum in 2011 and is likely to drop slightly to 56 million gallons per year by 2020. Overall, Guam’s transportation system is relatively inefficient, offering much “low-hanging fruit,” or relatively easily achievable petroleum-use reductions with many co-benefits. On average, Guam residents take a larger share of their trips in personal vehicles than Hawaiian residents (the closest comparison) do. This can in part be attributed to the facts that bus ridership in Guam is low and walking and biking are inconvenient or dangerous. The vehicles in Guam are less efficient than on the U.S. mainland, and they use no alternative fuels.