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From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: US Isolationism RE: US at war in 1940?1942? L3
> 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 finally found a source after the source I had earlier died. We have from
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/ukenv.html#ENERGY
In 1998, per capita energy consumption in the United Kingdom was 165.3
million Btu. This is slightly less than per capita energy consumption levels
in France (170.0 million Btu), Germany (168.6 million Btu) and, Japan (168.4
million Btu), and significantly less than in Norway (420.9 million Btu) and
the United States (350.7 million Btu).
There is a greater than a factor of 2 difference in the US energy usage and
that of four G7 countries (I think the next 4 biggest in GDP). Lets look at
the per capita GDP and purchasing power parity for 1999 for these countries:
http://www.oecd.org/std/gdpperca.htm
per capita GDP purchasing power parity
France 23764 22067
Germany 25729 23819
Japan 34313 24628
United Kingdom 24228 22861
United States 33836 33836
Using a bit of math, one finds that the ratio of per capita energy use over
per capita GDP is 1.67, while the energy use per unit of purchasing powe
parity is 1.44. In short, the US's ecconomy is much more energy intensive
than Japan's or these large European countries.
Dan M.
