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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (588)7/7/2008 5:52:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
Actually, it would take approximately 7 years, which is the average turnover of the American fleet of cars.

If the average car turns over in 7 years, that almost certainly a lot of them have not turned over in 7 years. Its a mean not a median (if it was a median than half of them would not have turned over), but I don't think the mean would be too far from the median here. Some cars do last for a very long time, but with as large of group as the total number of cars in the US, and with very few cars on the road more than 50 years, you don't get much of a "Bill Gates walks in to the bar and the average person in the bar is a multi-millionaire" effect.

It is obvious that our government needs to get involved and help channel this country's desire for energy independence into a national strategy.

You say your against central planning but then you seem to argue for it. Perhaps your not for harsh and total planning, but you definitely seem to want a lot of economic decisions decided politically.
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