Eli Rabett wrote: > Oh come on, If you look at the US/Canada, what you see is an area to > the east of the Mississipi that is about as densly populated (and > roughly by eye about the same size as Europe. Canada's population > lives within about 100 miles of the US Border. > > New York is a part of the Bos-Richmond megopolis, The west coast is a > narrow strip which ends at the mountains. Los Angeles is really San > Diego-Venice. > > Transport distances are not much different. There are about 800 miles > between NY and Chicago, and about 800 between London and Madrid, > > Half of the total US energy useage is accounted for by eight states. > > The "wide open spaces" don't have much in them and don't account for > much of the excess energy use.
You may find the following to be of interest: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/repsol_ypf-ksg_fellows/Papers/Aldy/Aldy%20CO2%20Divergence.pdf Relevant quote: "The five (ten) states with the highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions in 1999 had a population density equal to less than one-fifth (one-third) the national average." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
