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If we all drove Prius's
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There's an error in the first paragraph; the US consumption as part of world supply (from the source cited) is 20.8/84.6 = 24.5%, not 43%.
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I believe that they have omitted the most important fact. If US oil consumption were reduced by that amount, the price of oil would drop back to $30 a barrel and even the Hummer drivers would be happy.
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That's not fact. That's fiction.
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I agree with you, Mark, but that is another topic that is likely to spawn an endless thread. I went through this same thing off-list a couple weeks back.
Mike (smiling and nodding)
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You only have to look back to 1978 to see the oil prices going from $30 down to $12 due to a drop in demand.
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Pardon my error. The crude oil price drop I was remembering occurred from $34 a barrel in '82 to $12 a barrel in '86. Amazing what a little conservation can do.
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That was the recovery from a double price spike: the Arab oil embargo and middle east wars. The graph on
Mike (forgot to smile and nod)
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If we all drove Prius's we wouldn't be crushed to death by SUV's...
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If we all drove SUVs we wouldn't be crushed to death by Prius cars - that's logic for you! ;-) All vehicles are dangerous if misdirected.