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ceramic range tops
Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
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>> Peter A wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>>> Okay, even though I've driven a European car or two and they
>>>> use as much oil as any of my other cars, maybe you mean those
>>>> tiny cars. Regardless, I understand what you're saying, but I
>>>> think maybe you said this before? that our appliances are energy
>>>> hogs. That the US doesn't care about energy efficient appliances,
>>>> and that's not true.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I've been in places where the air conditioning is freezing
>>>> cold, but most of the time it's not that cold. Certainly not in
>>>> my house.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Per capita energy consumption, kg of oil equivalent, year 2003
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>>> US: 7794
>>> Spain 3228
>>> United Kingdom 3918
>>> Germany 4203
>>> France 4518
>>> Italy 3127
>>> Belgium 5703
>>> Japan 4040
>>> Europe as a whole 3698
>>>
>>> Case closed.
>>
>> Where did these stats come from Peter?
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> Don't mind Peter, he's just being belligerent...
I don't mind, I am just interested in where the data came from. I am not
contesting it at all, I just prefer to go to the root of statistics 
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> :-)
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> Besides the raw data he presents, you have to factor in things like
> physical size of the nation, transportation modes, population, per
> capita income/output, climate etc...
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> Frex, air con is widely used in places like Texas, the US South, etc.
> Many European locales don't have much of a need for air con ('though
> this is changing). Buying an air con unit in the UK is a rather
> expensive proposition. Here in the states you can pick up a simple
> window unit for less than $100.00, if you could find something
> similar in the UK it would cost many times that. Cheap air con is
> simply not a part of everyday life in the UK. Here it is, it's cheap
> so people of course buy it...air con in the US was once an expensive
> luxury, now most everybody can enjoy it to some extent, even if they
> have a modest income.
>
> We don't use more energy because one day we just woke up and said,
> "Hey, let's waste energy!". We use the energy because in our
> particular situation we *need* it...we aren't the biggest economy in
> the world for nothing, you know.
Thanks Greg
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