I came across this, which I cross-posted a year ago, very pertinent, so I thought I'd post it again. Apologies to long-term members with good memories.
Keith Fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Albrecht Kaupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi folks, Wandering in between three homes and living alternatively in in the USA, India and Germany, and by my profession and believe would qualify as a Democrat/Ecofascist as defined by Dave, I see this whole discussion a bit more relaxed. It is a matter of being brainwashed for too long that high energy consumption and low energy costs have something to do with quality of life. I wonder why there are no riots in the streets of Germany at a gasoline price of 4 US$ per gallon with diesel,LPG and N-gas not much lower. I also can't see the industry collapsing, people starving, or quality of life falling apart because the country is highly energy efficient. Is the industry and economy in the USA so weak that they can't even handle US$ 4 per gallon or doubeling LPG costs. Here in India most of the professionals tell me every day that energy efficiency by itself won't help anyway. It is a matter of the sum of energy efficiency and energy modesty. At the end of the day a highly energy efficient state-of-the-art LARGE american refrigerator will use up 2.8 kWh per electricity while the inefficient Indian SMALL refrigerator will use up 1.8 kWh. Of course the Americans ,the Germans and a few others are madly trying to tell the Indians how inefficient this fridge is. The trouble is that such an advise is not very much respected and accepted from us, whom have totally forgotten about energy modesty bragging too much about energy efficiency. Albrecht Kaupp Senior Advisor Indo-German Energy Efficiency and Environment Project, IGEEP 21 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 110 003, India Tel +91-11-4603832-6 or +91-11-6864867 to 68 Fax +91-11-4603831 or +1-801-340-7905 (USA) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Save on REALTOR Fees http://us.click.yahoo.com/Xw80LD/h1ZEAA/Ey.GAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
