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To: Tommaso who wrote (6432)	1/8/2007 10:36:30 AM
From: LoneClone	Respond to of 30233

I am referring to the energy costs of the extraction of basic resources, their transportation and manufacture into products, the transportation of those products to the market, and the eventual disposal of those products. And to the ratio of those energy costs to the energy consumed during the use of the product. Obviously with a car more of the energy use is carried out by the user, but with products like the gyproc in your walls that don't require energy to use day to day, almost all the energy usage is during the processes I mentioned. And when you start to take into account the energy costs of building and maintaining the infrastructure -- roads, gas stations, etc. -- required for you to drive your car, the proportion of energy you use personally declines drastically. This is not to denigrate personal efforts at energy conservation, which are vital. I've been minimizing my personal energy consumption as much as I could for decades, although I occasionally blow the whole thing by doing something like flying to Europe, which is indefensible in energy usage terms. LC