Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 5.11 Petrol and diesel consumption of road vehicles
2003 2004 20052 20062 20072 20082 20092
thousands of tonnes
by type of vehicle
Buses 155.4 146.7 182.4 179.6 185.3 189.3 189.6
Diesel cars 328.2 356.6 500.9 537.5 565.1 575.4 596.5
Petrol cars 1,679.3 1,651.1 1,360.5 1,330.9 1,277.6 1,217.8 1,146.4
Motorcycles 9.6 9.3 11.0 10.6 11.4 10.9 11.2
Heavy Goods Vehicles 659.5 693.5 650.2 671.7 698.5 707.6 655.4
Diesel Light Goods Vehicles 438.8 456.8 368.0 381.5 403.5 399.4 389.7
Petrol Light Goods Vehicles 54.2 48.9 32.2 32.4 29.8 26.7 24.1
Total 3,325.0 3,363.0 3,105.3 3,144.2 3,171.3 3,127.2 3,012.9
by Council area1
Aberdeen City 74.3 73.5 92.7 96.1 93.5 91.3 85.5
Aberdeenshire 201.2 201.0 184.1 192.0 191.8 187.3 179.2
Angus 72.1 72.3 70.8 75.3 75.2 75.0 72.1
Argyll & Bute 84.0 85.7 59.9 60.4 60.2 59.6 57.3
Clackmannanshire 13.6 13.3 19.4 19.7 20.0 19.8 19.3
Dumfries & Galloway 223.5 222.4 168.2 169.7 177.2 177.3 167.3
Dundee City 41.8 42.7 61.5 61.6 62.4 61.1 58.4
East Ayrshire 74.4 74.8 79.3 76.7 76.0 74.4 72.4
East Dunbartonshire 39.6 39.3 38.3 38.2 38.7 37.5 36.5
East Lothian 61.9 62.0 61.4 62.0 63.5 61.1 57.8
East Renfrewshire 42.2 43.2 55.7 49.6 51.0 51.0 49.4
Edinburgh, City of 183.3 178.6 215.8 214.7 216.5 209.6 205.3
Eilean Siar* 19.8 19.8 12.1 13.5 13.4 12.9 13.0
Falkirk 105.8 107.4 107.1 110.9 112.9 111.4 107.0
Fife 189.2 188.7 181.0 184.7 187.1 183.3 176.6
Glasgow, City of 266.4 273.9 247.7 247.5 247.2 245.4 234.8
Highland 242.6 241.5 168.5 172.9 174.7 173.4 171.8
Inverclyde 29.2 29.1 36.3 36.3 36.0 35.2 33.5
Midlothian 45.1 50.7 44.3 45.0 45.4 44.7 43.2
Moray 56.5 56.4 47.9 48.9 49.7 48.9 47.7
North Ayrshire 54.4 56.7 52.3 52.9 52.4 52.1 50.0
North Lanarkshire 231.8 230.6 223.8 225.3 226.6 224.4 215.6
Orkney Islands 16.7 16.7 8.7 9.1 9.1 9.1 8.7
Perth & Kinross 206.5 204.3 176.3 178.9 181.8 178.1 172.3
Renfrewshire 105.3 110.2 97.8 98.7 98.5 98.4 93.7
Scottish Borders 103.9 103.8 79.2 80.7 81.1 80.2 77.8
Shetland Islands 18.6 18.6 12.6 12.9 12.8 12.7 12.2
South Ayrshire 70.5 71.3 66.8 67.6 68.1 67.1 65.0
South Lanarkshire 212.5 236.1 198.3 201.7 204.5 203.3 196.5
Stirling 85.7 83.1 81.0 83.3 85.0 83.6 80.0
West Dunbartonshire 38.6 36.1 41.2 41.5 41.0 40.4 39.9
West Lothian 113.9 119.1 115.3 115.7 117.7 117.6 113.0
Total 3,325.0 3,363.0 3,105.3 3,144.2 3,171.3 3,127.2 3,012.9

*formerly Western Isles
Source: DECC - Years prior to 2005 are not National Statistics
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.
2. There have been major revisions to the data due to improvements in the methodology. For more information please see here:
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/regional/road_transport/road_transport.aspx