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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (284919)5/9/2006 11:45:47 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1572232
 

If people like you don't understand what "efficiency" means

Apparently you don't understand what efficiency means, or you like the term so much that you use it to refer to some other issue that you consider more important, and that may well be more important, but really isn't energy efficiency.

John if more energy is produced for each barrel of oil (or ton of coal or cubic foot of natural gas, or any set amount of any energy source), or more work is produced per a given amount of energy, then energy is being used more efficiently, and by both those measures energy is being used more efficiently than in the past. In addition to that more wealth is produced per unit of oil consumed, or in general per unit of energy consumed.

Importing more oil doesn't equal less energy efficiency.

Using 10% more gasoline to do 25% more work moving a larger vehicle represents an increase in energy efficiency. The situation as a whole may be worse but it is still a more efficient use of energy.

What you apparently want is lower oil use. There are a number of reasonable arguments behind the idea that using less oil could be beneficial. If you believe those arguments are correct and that if we don't reduce oil usage we will have serious problems, and/or that if we do reduce the usage we will end problems or otherwise get a large benefit, than these arguments could be far more important than the proper use of the term energy efficiency. But even if they are a billion times more important they don't change the meaning of the term.
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