Joined: Aug 24, 2005 Posts: 338 Location: Costa Geriatrica, Spain
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:38 am Post subject: Re: Instant Solutions to High Fuel Costs
MonteQuest wrote:
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Cutting national fuel consumption by just 2% would lower fuel prices.
China is now the one that sneezes, not the US. Our heyday is over.
I prefer to think of the USA and China as siamese twins economically joined at the hip. US corporate investment in China is enormous, ditto its reliance on Chinese manufactured goods. Hurt one country and you hurt the other.
That's the current situation. Of course, things might change.
Last edited by skeptik on Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:41 am; edited 1 time in total
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: Re: Instant Solutions to High Fuel Costs
I find your Siamese twin analogy to be entirely relevant in this particular situation. _________________ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 898 Location: Chicago, IL
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Instant Solutions to High Fuel Costs
MonteQuest wrote:
Electric_Economy_2025 wrote:
vilemerchant wrote:
Imagine the total amount of energy and resources the US Navy uses sending those massive carrier battle groups around the world to intimidate other nations.
The U.S. military uses about 500,000 barrels of oil a day that's a drop is in the bucket compared to what the U.S commuters uses each day to get to work.
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Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the Pentagon the single largest oil consumer in the world. By the way, according to the 2006 CIA World Factbook rankings there are only 35 countries (out of 210) in the world that consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/26194
I was wondering if such statistic existed. Good catch. Thanks.
So there is instant solution to US high fuel costs. Of course, it will NEVER pass.
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