[PRCo] Re: Beyond the Motor City ~ Video: Preview | Blueprint America

[Schneider Fred]

A lot of this is societal.   I remember British real estate  
advertisements from the teens, twenties and thirties suggesting you  
should move to the suburbs and have your own patch of green.  But  
very often those suburbs were within walking distance of, for  
example, London Underground stations that enabled you to get into the  
city.
You can see the same pattern in Britain that you see here where  
people try to move away from the city and their neighbors but it has  
not become nearly as extreme as here.

It seems far less extreme in Germany, Austria or Switzerland than in  
many countries I've visited and I suspect (I've been told but I have  
not personally verified it) that it has to do a lot with regulating  
how one lives.   Cities and towns and villages are for living.    
Countryside is for farming and recreation.   And we keep them that  
way by regulation.   I need someone to translate those regulations  
for me.   But that kind of an attitude will keep those countries  
surviving a lot longer on a lot less fuel.

I have attached an excel file that shows world wide oil consumption  
by barrels per year and by quarts per person per day as well as motor  
vehicle registrations.    The only major developed nation using more  
oil per day than us is Canada and perhaps, considering they live  
farther north and require more degree days of heating in the winter,  
that is justifiable.

There are a lot of small places that use more than we do such as  
Iceland, Greenland, our Virgin Island, Guam (also owned by us), and  
Cyprus but I suspect that relates to fueling large fleets of fishing  
vessels and cruise ships and airliners in relation to small  
populations.   I think Gibraltar is isolated from the European power  
grid and generates all its electricity using diesel oil.  But the  
curious thing is how dependent North America (the U. S. A. and Canada  
that is) have become on automobiles for transportation and our cities  
are far more dependent than theirs.   If you go to Victoria, British  
Columbia, for example, you will see crowds on their city buses.

The spread sheet is something I produced simply for my own education  
and illumination.   It told me a lot.   And if it fails to come  
through and anyone really cares, scream and I'll send it to you  
directly.

The flaw is automobiles or vehicles per 100,000 population and not  
per person over the age when you can get a drivers license.   There  
is also apparently no consistency whether some nations included or  
did not include motor cycles.



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