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Re: Rumor control?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:27:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > USA = 3% of the population.
> > > USA = 25% of CO2 production.
We exhale more.
> > Interesting. Out of curiosity, what percentage of heavy industry is
> > located in the US?
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> Production and consumption are the problem.
Are you under the impression that that somehow answered the question?
> > Or is all that CO2 produced by cars?
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> At present the US, with its 250m consumers, sucks up the largest proportion
> of world oil - 19m of the 74m barrels the world uses daily. Two-thirds is
> used for transportation.
So?
> > Do you have a
> > breakdown of other leading national contributors to atmospheric CO2?
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> Nope, but I read that the USA has the most inefficient power industry in the
> western world.
We seem to be getting on OK.
> > > Right now, I hear, the USA is using so much oil that is is forced to buy
> > > ~90% of Iraqs oil
Well, now we get to something that is wrong. We shouldn't be dealing with
people like that.
Chris
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| (...) Production and consumption are the problem. (...) At present the US, with its 250m consumers, sucks up the largest proportion of world oil - 19m of the 74m barrels the world uses daily. Two-thirds is used for transportation. (...) Nope, but I (...) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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