U.S. has fewer cars per person than Europe, but still uses twice as much energy

Here's a shocking statistic: The United States has fewer cars per capita than Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and 16 other countries. Even more dramatic is one of the potential causes: A declining American middle class. According to an Atlantic report on a new study conduct by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, we're ranked just 25th in the world in per-person car ownership. The actual number stands at 439 cars per 1,000 Americans. Further, the U.S. is an outlier when you compare the number of vehicles per capita to household consumption.

Autoblog , U.S. has fewer cars per person than Europe, but still uses twice as much energy, U.S. has fewer cars per person than Europe, but still uses twice as much energy