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Not sure if you're serious, but transportation is only 14% of emissions. Electricity, agriculture and industry are all individually bigger contributors.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

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Why are militaries rarely mentioned as GGG contributors?

Good question, maybe they are still included in some of the current categories?

It's hard to get data. Countries were explicitly allowed to ignore/not report military emissions by the Kyoto Accords. Without the mandatory reporting anyone trying to write about it has to gather a lot of information about the inner workings of military logistics (amount of tonnage moved by what method etc) that the government is quite reluctant to provide.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-greenhouse-gases-140-co...

It's too bad because it's got to be pretty horrible. If they could just get the data for the amount of diesel/jet fuel consumed, that would tell us a lot. The US military burned a ridiculous amount of diesel fuel in Afghanistan just to try to air-condition tents in the desert.

Hey, your landlord called me and he said he's going to reduce your rent by 14%. Deal, or no deal?

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