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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (162195)7/18/2001 5:25:28 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Dear j-f, The percents presented by you 96 and the 280 may both be true.
If you consider the the US GDP is 5 time that of Germany and I know that the US has the least CO2 per unit of GDP anywhere in the world. Germany may put our 1/2 the CO2 of the US. But Germany only produces 1/5 of what the US does.
Not if you want to think about it. Germany also contains East Germany and former Communist countries were backwards as hell. Also Germany I believe has no nuke plants. If they have any they produce less than 20% of the energy. I suspect Germany uses lots of coal.

So to me it makes sense that Germany outputs 2.8 times the CO2 per unit GDP as the US. Now the absolute amount of CO2 has little meaning with no reference.

So if you want free speech, well guess what you have it. But if you post simple percents as facts and don't explain what they are, then you leave yourself open to be considered in a less than favorable light.

I consider free speech to honestly call what I see stupid as stupid. I post facts and opinions and analysis. Feel free to call them whatever you like. But if you just want to rant then don't expect any respect. Beyond my many acid comments I've taken the time to study and read and learn facts. watman.com

Now the new york times requires account access. So if you only post a link, all cannot follow and as I've seen 7442166 the spirit of a lie post links having nothing to do with opinion, some who post are dishonest. If I can't follow the links and read for myself the context of what is said then I don't give much credibility to the data.

tom watson tosiwmee
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