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Originally Posted by micky1up
and if your oil companys hadnt bought out every non petrol car design to stop them being made then you wouldnt be subjected to having to buy eastern oil short term thinking on part of the west, stop buying there oil crash their market and watch em come running arms open
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That sounds a bit confused, or I have no idea what you want to say. Not only european car manufacturers have tried to hinder the developement of alternative cars, but American and Japanese car makers as well. Today, manufacturers from all three continents produce them nevertheless.
European cars on average are far more energy efficient than the huge american designs that seem to be the more proud the more litres they consume per 100 km. And if I were American and would come from the one nation that consumes more oil per head and spends more gasoline per car than anyone else, I wouldn' be so easy to accuse others of wasting oil:
the US (5% of world population) consumes 25% of global
oil production (EU 18%, China 9%, Japan 6%)
US also consumes 24% of global
gas production (EU 17%, Russia 15%, others 23%). I do not list all the other single nations that stand apart from the category "others".
The US is by far not the global leader of sparing energy and reducing energy- and traffic-caused CO2-emissions. (
CO2 emission from energy production alone: US 21%, EU 12%, Japan 4%, China 16%, others 37%). In traffic-caused C02-emissions, the relative lead of the US is even higher.
All data given by "BP statistical review 2005", and backed up by "Deutsche Bank Energy-Related Research 2005" which I both have in print.
You also are wrong about the impact on russia if europe no longer buys their oil. Both Russia and Iran, in that case, would simply sell it to China and India in that case, which wouldn't hurt them a bit. Both countries (China and India) are desperately seeking to buy more than their current shares, for their exploding economies urgently need it.
Putin just today has totally rejected any European (united!) demands to be more reliable as a business partner in energy questions and accept obligatory delivery guarantees.
Remember that I say time and again that we must become independent from oil, in general, and Muslim oil in special?