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Pastimes : Energy Independence NOW
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To: Gary105 who started this subject2/9/2003 6:43:55 PM
From: Copperfield   of 17
 
The city I live in subsidizes the city buses. Most of the time they are nearly empty. Most of the cars on the road have only one person in them. All the new houses being built are huge. It would appear that I live in an energy rich part of Canada but I don't! We have few energy resources and must import almost all our fossil fuel from other regions of North America.

We face the same type of problems here as you do in the USA. Despite all the warning signs .. power shortages and high prices, gridlock on our roads, summer smog ect., no one seems willing to change their behavior. We are addicted as a society to economic growth at any cost and cheap energy.

In the 1990's I was the former Soviet Union a couple times. The economy had basically collapsed and people had lost all their savings. There were power cuts often daily. There was no hot water in the summer and only minimal heat in the winter. People packed into dilapitated buses for transportation. Most people couldn't pay their utility bills and many people were not getting paid including coal miners, nuclear plant workers ect.

It is easy to say that it can't happen here. You are absolutly right. One of our weakness, besides debt at all levels and wasting of energy and resources is dependence on imported oil. Russia and those countries over in the Middle Est have got lots of it and want to sell it to us .. at $35 a barrel.
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