George wrote:

> Dee Dee wrote:
>
> >
> > Here in the US, there are notices on every product that I've purchased
about
> > the energy consumption. It's always been a consideration to me.
> >
> > People always are making blanket statements regarding the U.S.'s
thinking on
> > just about everything and offering their opinions about the pysche of
> > America --
> >
> > Dee Dee
> >
> >
> I live in the US and there are lots of single occupant drivers of
> trucks driven as a fashion statement wasting millions of gallons of
> gasoline every day for which we compensate by grinding up corn to make
> ethanol which has significantly increased the price of anything using
> the corn such as poultry, milk etc. Anyone observing this could rightly
> shake their head.


In the above statement you could substitute "Germany" for "US", and
"expensive Mercedes/Porsches/Audis..." for "trucks"...and in Germany there
is no or a very high speed limit donchyaknow...

Anyone observing this (in Germany) could rightly shake their head...

:-)

Did you know that many urban Chinese have abandoned bikes and are buying
shiny new cars, especially Buicks, Buicks are the best - selling "foreign"
brand in China. Oh those wasteful Chinese...!!!

--
Best
Greg