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To: Road Walker who wrote (584)	7/7/2008 8:02:05 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

If you're not in favor of foregoing producing more conventionally here, you should stop angrily objecting when someone advocates doing that. Like this: You can produce "more" oil and natural gas in the US and it won't make a bit of F'ing difference. -------------------------------------------------- Btw, if you think we can go from 25% (actually a little under that) to 3% of world consumption w/o a massive drop in the US standard of living anytime w/i the next few decades, you're nuts. What's magical about 3%??? A drop to, say 12%, about a 50% efficiency gain in 10 years, would make a whole lot of difference. I suppose I should have said 2% - thats what a couple means literally and a couple is what you said: You've got a couple of percentage points of world production, or 1/4 of world consumption. What do you target? The whole point of bringing up the 25% of crude use statistic is to contrast it with our percentage of the worlds population, which is about 3%. Thus I used 3%. --------------------------------------------------- What gets me is: 1) you and mindmeld tend to talk about conservation and producing more domestic energy as mutually exclusive alternatives (as observed above, advocating more domestic production actually angers you) 2) you assume conservation has to be commanded by some collective decision imposed by the government. In reality, the only way meaningful conservation is gonna happen is people voluntarily responding to prices.