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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis
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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (9301)6/28/2008 1:58:40 PM
From: dybdahl  Read Replies (1) of 71475
 
Most claims about energy usage these days are totally bogus. I think there are a few parameters to how much pollution you're actually producing:

- How much money you spend
- How high tech is the product
- Where does the product come from

If you're buying a tomato, produced by your neighbor, it's probably very little pollution. If you're buying some high-tech vehicle for a lot of money, it's probably pollution a lot. I guess the production of the car electronics alone produces several tonnes of waste.

I once saw an article that claimed that the energy that goes to manufacture tires is about the same as the energy used to drive the car. I don't know if it is true, or has been true, but a modern car engine is actually a very efficient way of using fuel.

Remember, it takes less oil to go 10 miles by car than by foot - because going 10 miles by foot requires you to eat extra food, and that requires more extra oil than the car would use for the same distance.

If you want to be energy efficient, consider this choice ;-) picasaweb.google.com

Personally I believe that taxing fossile fuels is the only thing that works in a good way if you want to save energy - this reduces the complexity for consumers to picking the cheap solutions.
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