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Table 6.11 Petrol and diesel consumption of road vehicles
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
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thousands of tonnes |
by type of vehicle |
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Buses | 157.3 | 155.4 | 146.7 | 151.2 |
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Diesel cars | 297.4 | 328.2 | 356.6 | 383.0 |
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Petrol cars | 1,710.0 | 1,679.3 | 1,651.1 | 1,590.1 |
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Motorcycles | 8.8 | 9.6 | 9.3 | 8.8 |
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Heavy Goods Vehicles | 621.0 | 659.5 | 693.5 | 671.4 |
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Diesel Light Goods Vehicles | 414.5 | 438.8 | 456.8 | 477.9 |
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Petrol Light Goods Vehicles | 62.8 | 54.2 | 48.9 | 44.0 |
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Total | 3,271.8 | 3,325.0 | 3,363.0 | 3,326.4 |
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by Council area 1 |
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Aberdeen City | 74.9 | 74.3 | 73.5 | 72.2 |
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Aberdeenshire | 197.7 | 201.2 | 201.0 | 199.1 |
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Angus | 71.3 | 72.1 | 72.3 | 73.4 |
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Argyll & Bute | 85.2 | 84.0 | 85.7 | 84.8 |
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Clackmannanshire | 13.8 | 13.6 | 13.3 | 13.2 |
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Dumfries & Galloway | 218.2 | 223.5 | 222.4 | 222.4 |
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Dundee City | 41.1 | 41.8 | 42.7 | 42.2 |
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East Ayrshire | 72.7 | 74.4 | 74.8 | 73.0 |
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East Dunbartonshire | 40.0 | 39.6 | 39.3 | 38.7 |
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East Lothian | 59.8 | 61.9 | 62.0 | 58.4 |
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East Renfrewshire | 42.1 | 42.2 | 43.2 | 42.6 |
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Edinburgh, City of | 183.1 | 183.3 | 178.6 | 175.8 |
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Eilean Siar* | 19.8 | 19.8 | 19.8 | 20.0 |
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Falkirk | 104.3 | 105.8 | 107.4 | 105.0 |
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Fife | 186.3 | 189.2 | 188.7 | 183.8 |
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Glasgow, City of | 266.2 | 266.4 | 273.9 | 273.9 |
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Highland | 240.5 | 242.6 | 241.5 | 240.5 |
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Inverclyde | 28.8 | 29.2 | 29.1 | 28.3 |
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Midlothian | 44.3 | 45.1 | 50.7 | 50.0 |
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Moray | 54.7 | 56.5 | 56.4 | 56.6 |
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North Ayrshire | 54.0 | 54.4 | 56.7 | 56.5 |
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North Lanarkshire | 227.7 | 231.8 | 230.6 | 229.1 |
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Orkney Islands | 16.8 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 16.6 |
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Perth & Kinross | 200.2 | 206.5 | 204.3 | 202.3 |
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Renfrewshire | 99.5 | 105.3 | 110.2 | 109.6 |
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Scottish Borders | 102.3 | 103.9 | 103.8 | 102.9 |
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Shetland Islands | 18.3 | 18.6 | 18.6 | 18.7 |
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South Ayrshire | 68.4 | 70.5 | 71.3 | 69.5 |
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South Lanarkshire | 211.1 | 212.5 | 236.1 | 230.3 |
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Stirling | 80.5 | 85.7 | 83.1 | 82.4 |
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West Dunbartonshire | 38.0 | 38.6 | 36.1 | 36.5 |
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West Lothian | 110.1 | 113.9 | 119.1 | 118.1 |
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Total | 3,271.8 | 3,325.0 | 3,363.0 | 3,326.4 |
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*formerly Western Isles
1. These estimates are of the total amount of petrol and diesel consumed by vehicles travelling in each Council area (i.e. the estimates are based on where the vehicles were driven, rather than - say - the area of the registered keepers of the vehicles).
The total differs markedly from table 6.10's total figure for petrol and diesel deliveries in Scotland, for reasons given in paragraph 2.17.
Figure 6.2 Atmospheric concentrations of selected pollutants recorded at urban and rural monitoring sites
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