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To: Joe NYC who wrote (246885)	8/21/2005 9:17:37 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571806

re: No, it's certainly not. There is a big difference between "not tax cuts" and "increasing taxes"? Just depends on a personal bias, as far as the proper starting point. Not every "jump" is a "reversal of a previous fall". If you are going to play games I'll just end the discussion now. Thanks, Good Night. John

To: Joe NYC who wrote (246885)	8/22/2005 1:44:37 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571806

And our GDP is almost identical to the EU which has much lower per capita energy consumption. Let me clarify. GDP of EU and the US is almost identical, but the population of EU is 50% greater. That means that GDP per person is much lower. To compare apples to apples, for equal GDP, EU consumed 73.3 (Quadrillion Btu) and the US consumed 97.6. Well, it is higher, nobody claimed otherwise, but it is not not like a the US and EU are in a different league. Huh? The EU's population is 50% greater than the US but consumes 33% less oil, and you think that the EU and the US are in the same league??? Given the above statistics, I would suggest the US is in a league of its own.