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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
i'm always intrigued by the energy oil debates.
aren't alot of the other products we use oil derivatives? like all the plastics we use? all the machining and manufacturing?
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...so, we in the US consume 20.70 million bbls of petroleum per day, and 13.82 million of those bbls are used for transportaion, 880 thousand for residential use, 380,000 for commercial consumption, 5.07 million for industrial use, and 540 thousand by electric utiltities.....
IMO, there is a huge potential for reduction, from current tranportation consumption, especially now that the US auto manufacturing sector is reducing in it's size and impact on the economu to near irrelevancy. It will most likely happen via unaffordability and not by government leadership....the "have nots" will simply be priced out of discretionary motor fuels consumption....