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To: tejek who wrote (226247)	3/25/2005 2:42:27 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576955

Wouldn't it be smart to follow the Japanese and European model of taxing gas so that people would be discouraged from driving and use that money to subsidize the research for alternative fuels and alternative transport in a more meaningful way? I totally agree and so do the bike shops in Los Angeles! Just think of it, people biking or hiking if too poor or too stupid to buy or steal a bike. With the rich taking to alternatives and by doing that dropping horse-shit all over the city... Ted "Il Viaggiatore", you have been to Europe and possibly to Japan and know the differences. Over there you have public transportation systems which are at the best rudimentary in LAX, which was just one example of many. Taro

To: tejek who wrote (226247)	3/25/2005 3:06:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576955

Ted, Much of that higher price is due to taxes on the gas, and not because they import 100% of their oil. Its done intentionally to keep imports of oil down. If true, that still doesn't change what I said, since the need to control the import of oil is born from the fact that they have to import 100% of their oil. By the way, the statistics you posted don't make sense: Oil supplies the US with 30% of its energy, 50% for the UK, 10% for Japan, 22% for India and 90% for Nigeria Natural gas supplies the US with 26% of its energy, 18% for the UK, 4% for India and 3% for Japan." If oil and natural gas only makes up 13% of Japan's energy needs, then what makes up the other 87%? Coal? Nuclear? There was a link on the web page you provided, but it was broken, so I couldn't find the original source of that "statistic." Tenchusatsu