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Oink Oink; Holy Christ! - We are pigs
Topic Started: Apr 19 2006, 08:51 AM (797 Views)
kenny
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from here:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/19/markets/ei...ex.htm?cnn=yesz
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Aqua Letifer
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Not news to us in the environmental field. We're resource gluttons, it's true.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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M&M's
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Aren't we a whole lot bigger than all of those countries? With a load more people?
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big al
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Actually, no. China & India far exceed us in population. Brazil is about the same size as the US in area and population. Might be worth finding some per capita usage figures (which woud still show that we are hogs at the natural resources trough).

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kenny
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Apr 19 2006, 08:52 AM
Aren't we a whole lot bigger than all of those countries? With a load more people?

Frankly I think a per-capita chart would be even more embarassing to America.

India and China would fall off the chart.
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Aqua Letifer
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Apr 19 2006, 08:52 AM
Aren't we a whole lot bigger than all of those countries? With a load more people?

Actually, when you look at those figures, we're still tops ('cept for Japan in Barrels/sq.mile, but c'mon, that's just one huge island city. 'Tis be expected).

Barrels/sq. mile
CHINA 0.921537651
JAPAN 14.55661863
U.S.A 2.180364304
RUSSIA 0.146412884


Barrels/Person
CHINA 0.005327355
JAPAN 0.043149777
U.S.A 0.07036496
RUSSIA 0.017495609

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Whoa. We use about twice as many barrels per person than Japan. And we're not nearly as "urbanically saturated" as they are (that's a term I just made up which means the ratio of urbanized areas, which need much more energy, to rural areas). That's crazy.
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What do you do, drink the stuff?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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kenny
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John D'Oh
Apr 19 2006, 09:08 AM
What do you do, drink the stuff?

YES

Per capita we drink
63% more than Japan
4 times more than Russia
13 times more than China.

Drink up America:
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Bottoms Up America!

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John D'Oh
Apr 19 2006, 09:08 AM
What do you do, drink the stuff?

hell yeah...and we drink it from wooden barrels made of rare rain forest trees from south america

USA USA USA USA!!!!
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Aqua Letifer
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It's true, transportation consists of 67% of our petroleum consumption.

But I mean, there's so much more to it than that. We use petroleum to make things like Ink, Curtains, Roofing, Toothpaste, Shaving Cream, Life Jackets, Toilet Seats, Perfume, Panty Hose, Vitamin capsules, Rubbing Alcohol, Diapers, Plastic, Lipstic, Carpeting, Antihistamines, Detergent, etc...
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Apr 19 2006, 01:19 PM
It's true, transportation consists of 67% of our petroleum consumption.

But I mean, there's so much more to it than that. We use petroleum to make things like Ink, Curtains, Roofing, Toothpaste, Shaving Cream, Life Jackets, Toilet Seats, Perfume, Panty Hose, Vitamin capsules, Rubbing Alcohol, Diapers, Plastic, Lipstic, Carpeting, Antihistamines, Detergent, etc...

Yes, but lots of other countries make that stuff as well. What makes America different, except for the number of very silly cars?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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tcmod
Apr 19 2006, 09:18 AM
John D'Oh
Apr 19 2006, 09:08 AM
What do you do, drink the stuff?

hell yeah...and we drink it from wooden barrels made of rare rain forest trees from south america

USA USA USA USA!!!!

Actually, what we do is we ask to house army forces across the boarder to these rainforest citystates, declare that their leadership a threat to civil liberties, and overthrow said leadership to install a capitalist-friendly regime that will sell us the timber at 65 cents a yard less than the lumber yards in West Virginia. The West Virginian lumber yards, now losing their income, must now fix the income/wage imbalance by hiring immigrant workers. These immigrant workers are the same rainforest natives who messed junk up in the first place, but have fled their homes to avoid working in lumber yard sweatshops put in place by our government and the dictators we put in power. So now we're paying the very people who were putting them out of business at 3 dollars an hour more than they were getting in their corner of the world, and the West Virginia lumber yards go out of business anyway due to government audits after they get wise to the plan.

:lol:
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kenny
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John D'Oh
Apr 19 2006, 01:23 PM
Aqua Letifer
Apr 19 2006, 01:19 PM
It's true, transportation consists of 67% of our petroleum consumption.

But I mean, there's so much more to it than that.  We use petroleum to make things like Ink, Curtains, Roofing, Toothpaste, Shaving Cream, Life Jackets, Toilet Seats, Perfume, Panty Hose, Vitamin capsules, Rubbing Alcohol, Diapers, Plastic, Lipstic, Carpeting, Antihistamines, Detergent, etc...

Yes, but lots of other countries make that stuff as well. What makes America different, except for the number of very silly cars?

You mean the lack thereof....right? :lol:

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You could strap one of those on each foot and use them for roller skates.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Goes the spare tire one better.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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kenny
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Apr 19 2006, 10:29 AM
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I don't think I'd tailgate this guy. :hair:
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Actually, I think I would! Weeeeeeee! :D
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LWpianistin
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Apr 19 2006, 08:52 AM
Aren't we a whole lot bigger than all of those countries? With a load more people?

i thought India was more populated than the US...
And how are you today?
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Aqua Letifer
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They are; India has roughly 3.5 times as many people as the U.S.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Apr 19 2006, 03:08 PM
Actually, I think I would! Weeeeeeee! :D

You're laughing now - wait 20 years, you might be driving one.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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LWpianistin
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Aqua Letifer
Apr 19 2006, 11:42 AM
They are; India has roughly 3.5 times as many people as the U.S.

ok. just checking.
And how are you today?
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Factoid du jour: NJ has more people per square mile than India.
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Bernard
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I have, sadly enough, come to the conclusion that Americans are spoiled (hey! I don't leave myself out of that statement.)

It's not that we don't work hard enough--usually we work too hard. But I think we have come to value the wrong things. We have been sold on the notion that "life is a breeze--all you need is a huge car, a huge house, a gated community, a mega mall and a big screen tv. Get all that stuff and your problems will melt away." (NOT!) "That's the GOOD life!" (NOT!) The good life doesn't exclude those things but it certainly doesn't require them.

I wonder if we've forgotten what the "good life" is?
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