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To: Road Walker who wrote (229462)	4/17/2005 2:32:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573050

Not really. Often when one country takes the lead others will follow. And we are the largest auto market; if we force higher energy efficiency then there will be a certain spill over effect for autos bought in other countries. Even if hybrids or other high efficiency vehicles become very popular in the rest of the world its very unlikely that their oil use will go down. In many countries it won't be replacing gas guzzlers with efficient hybrids. If they buy the hybrids you might be replacing having no car with having the hybrid. China and India are huge and their economies are growing at a good clip. If they go in to a sustained slow down than non-American oil use might decline but if that happens we have bigger issues to worry about. I'm not sure why you, or anyone else, is arguing against efficiency. I am not arguing against efficiency. I might argue against certain steps that have the possibility to decrease fuel use, I might argue that other steps won't do as much as you claim even if I don't actually argue against them, but I'm not arguing against efficiency in general (quite the opposite really) or even efficiency in cars use of gasoline. Tim