"George" > wrote in message
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> 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.


That's a government decision. I didn't vote for it.

Yes, I rightly shake my head, too. But I try not to make a blanket
statement about all Russians, all Germans, etc. But it seems U.S. is fair
game for just about everyone to discuss with derision.

Dee Dee