At 09:19 AM 6/15/01 +1000 Russell Chapman wrote:
>"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
>> Pretty obvious to me that the rest of the world has been impoverished by
>> corrupt governments, and is not nearly using their fair share of energy.
>
>Yeah - right - Western Europe, Scandinavia, Australasia (not that we're
>particularly energy efficient either), those hotbeds of impoverished, corrupt
>countries. Jeez...
That's a bait-and-switch. The statistic I was responding to was the
percentage of world energy that the US uses, compared to population. If
you care to present evidence of the US's share of developed world energy
consumption by population, I'd be happy to discuss it.
I'm pretty sure that the Europeans are a bit more efficient than we are -
but I am sure that their geography helps out quite a lot. I'd have to
see numbers though to look at the situation with any intelligence, however.
>Heroin statistics alone give a good idea...
>Year Mex SEA SWA SAm
>1994 5 57 6 32
>1995 5 17 16 62
>1996 20 8 20 52
>1997 12 8 7 73
>1998 17 14 4 65
>OK - South West Asia isn't the middle east, but you get the idea. It
certainly
>covers the sub-continent.
Maybe I am missing something here, but doesn't this suggest that South
America is the whale in the bathtub when it comes to heroin production?
JDG
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