"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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I still maintain until the average American learns to conserve, gas is
going to be a problem.

Roger, while I agree with the principle that we, in America, must
learn to conserve not abuse what can we do about this:
"With real gross domestic product growing at a rate of 7% a year,
China
requires increasing amounts of oil to sustain its economic development.
Its
oil consumption grows by 7.5% per year, seven times faster than the
.S." -- as reported by The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.
The IAG report names the USA as the highest consumer but: "China
currently imports 32% of its oil and is expected to double its need for
imported oil between now and 2010 and become the second largest world oil
consumer." Second place currently belongs to Japan.
We in the US must learn to conserve, but we ain't the only problem and
maybe not the worst. Not when oil consumption in China is increasing
"seven
times faster than the U.S."

China is only making up for lost time in its industrialisation. Not only
that when every Chinese family has as many cars as the average American
family then you can start to point a finger at the Chinese.

with 1.5bn people, their perhead consumption is a fraction of the US.

Now if you want to start a war about oil........