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Low Carbon Economy, 2012, 3, 54-62 /10.4236/lce.2012.33008 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/lce) Dieselization and Road Transport CO Emissions: 2 * Evidence from Europe 1 1 2 António Cardoso Marques , José Alberto Fuinhas , Bruno Miguel Gonçalves 1 2 NECE and University of Beira Interior, Management and Economics Department, Estrada do Sineiro, Covilhã, Portugal; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. Email: acardosomarques@; amarques@ubi.pt Received June 11th, 2012; revised July 15th, 2012; accepted July 25th, 2012 ABSTRACT Road transport carbon dioxide emissions were analyzed, by focusing on a panel of 14 European countries for the time span 1995-2007. We deal with the existence of contemporaneous correlation by using the Panel Corrected Standard Errors estimator. We extend the empirical literature by controlling the effect of new diesel passenger car registrations and the average power of those vehicles. The price of gasoline and income reduce road transport carbon dioxide emis- sions, while population density and average power of new diesel passenger cars raises those emissions. We deepen the debate about dieselization, concluding that saving emissions by using diesel tend to be surpassed by the increased kilo- meters driven. Keywords: Road Transport; CO2 Emissions; Fuel Prices; Dieselization 1. Introduction buses and coaches (0.4%). Since PCs constitute the ma-