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To: quehubo who wrote (36991)	8/11/2002 10:41:14 AM
From: Hoa Hao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Cutting back on oil consumption would result in less money for the oil companies. I am a capitalist, but it is almost criminal the way oil companies have people bamboozled into thinking that you have to change your oil every 3000 miles.

To: quehubo who wrote (36991)	8/11/2002 3:21:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Quehubo: Thank you for the information and the links you have provided, some of which I just now read. You say, Notice the lack of effort to reduce our dependence on foreign oil through efficiency gains. It seems most of the gains occurred in the 70's with not much improvement and if you mean that we haven't learned anything, I'm not so certain that's true. Anyway, according to this article excerpt, we have become more energy efficient: The country has also never been smarter about energy use. Since 1973, fuel efficiency for the economy overall has improved by more than 42 percent. This dramatic gain in what energy analysts call "energy intensity" was not caused by fuel becoming more expensive. Indeed, the opposite has occurred. Between 1980 and 2000, energy prices rose by 44.8 percent, most of that rise occurring in the past two years. During the same 20-year period, non-energy prices increased almost three times as fast, by 119 percent. The price of a gallon of gas has declined by 39 percent in real terms. Low prices, efficient use, abundant supply: some crisis. archive.salon.com