Uploaded on 2017-06-30 by Olatz

1. What are the dominant fossil fuels used in your country? Use www.iea.org/sankey to discover it The dominant fossil fuel used in Spain is clearly oil, which mainly comes from local production. Gas is the following dominant energy source, but this is all imported and part of it is exported and another part is used to create electricity. Actually, it is electricity is the second most consumed source of energy, and it mainly is created in nuclear power plants. 2. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? (e.g. transport, industry, non-energy use etc.) Transport is clearly the main consumer, taking the 26.7% of the whole energy, and oil products coming from refineries are the principal sources that feed it. Moreover, is the road transport the main consumer, consuming the 24.5%. Other uses are the next ones that need more energy, being residential and commerce and public services the sectors that consume more energy, concretely electricity 3. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that?Think of how you can improve the sources and the consumption of energy.In this exercise, you are allowed to write how you would do this, but we strongly encourage you to provide your ideas with self-taken photographs (see Notes) an/or self-made sketches. It is clear that transport takes the great bulk of energy, and that the mains source that feeds transport is oil. Because of that, in order to create an environmental friendly and sustainable energy consumption it would be essential to take real measures that would reduce both the use of private road transport and the use of petrol. In order to reduce the use of private vehicles I would, first of all, improve public transportation, reinforcing existing lines of transports such as tramways or subways and increasing public spending to create new lines in metropolitan areas where the volume of private vehicles is very high. In addition, I would encourage the change of the fleet of buses by electric vehicles or similar that consume less petrol than the ordinary ones. Of course, it is also important to regain the cities for the pedestrian and the cyclists, restricting the access of the vehicles in the centers of cities, pedestrianizing streets and widening the sidewalks, for example. In the city I live in, Bilbao, this has been one of the lines of work of the city council and has obtained very good results. In 20 years the city has gone from being a gray city, full of traffic and pollution, to a clean and pleasing city for the pedestrian