[PRCo]

[Schneider Fred]

 From the Light Rail Now web site.   Sure it's propaganda but I guess  
it is our kind of propaganda.    The amazing thing here is that the  
automobile registration rates per capita in the European Union  
nations are on parallel with the United States.   The primary  
differences are that they live closer to their jobs, only about 70%  
use cars to get to work were 99% of us do, and overall they might  
drive 5000 miles a year to our 15000.   You also use a lot less  
energy when you are heating apartments instead of 25,000 square foot  
houses.   You use less energy when you hot water heater turns on only  
when you open the hot water spigot instead of keeping a 75 or 100  
gallon tank of water hot all day when you're not home to use it.    I  
could put a lot of et ceteras behind this but people would say, that  
Schneider isn't being patriotic.


9 March 2006

Petroleum consumption comparison – USA, European Union, Australia

A number of transportation and energy analysts have noted the huge  
disparity between the USA's dependency on petroleum and the more  
diversified energy profile of other advanced idustrial countries,  
which promote public transport and electrification of transportation  
systems to a far greater extent. Jim Gagnepain highlights "some  
interesting facts from the CIA Factbook." Jim has confined his  
comparison to the USA, Europe Union (EU), and Australia.

Population (2005)
· USA: 296 million
· EU: 457 million
· Australia: 20 million

Daily Oil Consumption
· USA: 19.6 Million BBLs
· EU: 14.5 Million BBLs
· Australia: 796,000 BBLs

GDP (US$)
· USA: $11.75 trillion
· EU: $11.65 trillion
· Australia: $612 billion

Jim then performs "a little math on these figures", as shown below:

Yearly Oil Consumption per Person
· USA: 24.09 BBL/person
· EU: 11.68 BBL/person
· Australia: 14.6 BBL/person

GDP/BBL of Oil
· USA: $1,644/BBL
· EU: $2,192/BBL
· Australia: $2,107/BBL