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To: carranza2 who wrote (43356)	5/11/2004 6:20:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793735

C2, I heard some silly guy making a comparison in regard to oil consumption that if China's standard of living rose to that of Mexico, the world would need 140 million barrels per day of oil instead of 70 million [or numbers about that much]. Which shows he has no idea what's going on. Human happiness, productivity and development has got only a minor relationship with oil and that has lasted barely a century and only half a century in great quantity. The oil age will be brief. Huge Americans roaring around frenetic, or blocked, "free"ways, in huger SUVs, is a weird chapter in human history. That is a very peculiar and hideously inefficient way to move people around to places where they don't want to be; from Truman Show house [the description is especially apt now that Homeland Security is keeping a very close eye on you, with Big Brother nodding approvingly] to corporate cubicle and via the mall and supermarket [where sugar, fat, white flour and flavourings are mixed into different brews andpackaged as "food"]. As the price of fuel rises and alternative ways of life develop, the SUV jam will seem as anachronistic as the 1960s Yank Tank cars with enormous tail fins and helicopter pad-sized hoods and trunks [bonnets and boots]. There's not really a big need for fuel to achieve human happiness. China will be fine without it. Meanwhile, they've got plenty of coal to go on with and they can always build thousands of nuclear reactors. Mqurice