Global and Russian tendencies of switching towards gas fuel for road transport

Dmitry Sergeevich Gordeev
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Dmitry Sergeevich Gordeev: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia

Russian Foreign Economic Journal, 2016, issue 1, 82-100

Abstract: In 2013 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree providing for the switch of not less than 50% of public road transport from oil products to gas in cities with population of more than one million by 2020. It is thought that this switch will allow to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The article is devoted to the analysis of economic efficiency of fuel switch and consequences for Russian ecology. The main result of this paper is that the fuel switch there will not lead to dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. However, there is a huge economic potential to reduce energy consumption costs since gas prices are much lower than diesel/gasoline prices.

Keywords: Road transport; oil products; natural gas; greenhouse gas; carbon dioxide; methane leakage. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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