Table 7. Carbon storage/sequestration from reduced fuel use with GM crops 2012.

Crop, trait, country	Fuel saving (million liters)	Permanent carbon dioxide savings arising from reduced fuel use (million kg of carbon dioxide)	Permanent fuel savings: as average family car equivalents removed from the road for a year (‘000s)
US: GM HT soybean	79	210	93
Argentina: GM HT soybean	275	736	321
Brazil GM HR soybean	148	394	175
Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay: GM HT soybean	58	156	69
US: GM HT maize	79	210	93
Canada: GM HT canola	76	203	90
Global GM IR cotton	17	45	20
Brazil IR maize	59	157	69
Total	791	2111	930

Notes: (1) Assumption: an average family car produces 150 g of carbon dioxide per km. A car does an average of 15 000 km per year and therefore produces 2,250 kg of carbon dioxide per year. (2) GM IR cotton. Burkina Faso, India, Pakistan, Burma and China excluded because insecticides assumed to be applied by hand, using back pack sprayers