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To: Road Walker who wrote (230031)	4/20/2005 5:20:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573494

Everything is relative. If you have $850,000 and I have a net worth of $4, you are wealthy relative to me, but it would be inaccurate to call you a billionaire. "High subsidies" or "Low subsidies" would be relative to other subsidies or relative to the size of the economy or relative to something else. Zero subsidy does not become a positive subsidy no matter what you relate it to, just as the man with $850k is not a billionaire no matter how poor of person you compare him to. Or to put it simply, not everything is relative. And the bottom line is we consume more energy per capita than any other country. Call it what you want, I call it reality. I think it likely is reality. It also is a different point than the contention that having lower taxes than other countries amounts to a subsidy. If you point was simply that we use a ton of energy you could have just said that and gotten quick agreement. Tim