Conservation of transport fuel in New Zealand: A review and research recommendations for the Liquid Fuels Trust Board

Abstract

Energy conservation should be regarded as an energy resource. If a device can be retrofitted to a car to improve its internal combustion, then the nation's cars can be regarded as an oil field and, therefore, a valid drilling site. We have a transport system which "leaks oil"; we do not need to use 115 Petajoules of liquid fuel for transport each year. This report seeks to identify "oil fields" on the demand side of the transport sector. The report comprises five sections. The first two are concerned with the transport of people, the third and fourth with the transport of goods, and the last touches briefly on some long term options.