The rest of that is true but the US moves a much higher percentage of its freight by rail than almost any large developed country.

Just in comparison to Europe “46 percent of European freight goes by truck while only 11 percent goes by rail, while in the United States more than 40 percent goes by rail while just 30 percent goes on the highway."

This is in ton-miles, so it’s the metric most directly relevant to emissions.

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myrmidon 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is this excluding maritime shipping?

According to eurostat (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/SEPDF/cac...) that is two thirds of freight volume and it probably still eclipses even rail transport in CO2 efficiency (until full CO2 free rail electrification), so this probably distorts things completely...

If you actually compare the emission fractions, you can see that the US uses much more CO2 per capita on transport compared to Europe (about 3 times as much!):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-ghg-sector?cou...

	▲	sarchertech an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No those include maritime shipping. This report from Eurostat is where I got my EU numbers. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/5711595/KS-D... Maritime is around 37% if you only include domestic and intra-EU shipping. Your report include all shipping that passes through any EU country’s EEZ. So if a ship coming from Africa headed to the US passes by the Azores. A portion of the tonne-kilometers of that ships voyage will show up in your report. If you do the same thing with the US, the percent of maritime freight movement would also skyrocket.