Keep up the good work down there. There is no summer in Chicago area this year.

It mostly comes down to our geography requiring us to have a big countries infrastructure to service a small countries population.

 

If we had a larger population or a smaller land mass the figures would be better.

He's right...  In rough figures, can you imagine having the population of new york scattered across the area of the entire CONUS ?

And, no matter where you are on that land mass, you can still access well paved roads, quality health care, reasonably priced goods, etc.  That all costs a mint in infrastructure and service.

It's simple things like public transport - you need a large population centre to support efficient urban rail (or similar) and we simply don't have those large blobs.

Don't get me wrong - there is a lot of room for improvement down here but our geography plays a large part of defining our baseline energy consumption and CO2 emmisions.

I'd guess that the best performers would be city states like Singapore with short transportation distances and high population density. Maybe a better measure would include some offset due to circumstances like geography......  hmmmm.