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NYC_SKP

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3. Depends on who "we" are. And the answer is "no" regardless of party. Ignorance.

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 02:14 AM

Sep 2014

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I've seen on this board defensive posts about buying goods from Walmart (China) and driving big trucks, (just because).

More energy goes into transportation than all other sectors combined.

Ask me for data and I'll prove it, true for California ~~and for the US.~~

Were we to localize food and production and, when needed, use mass transit, we would cut our energy consumption in half.

Like I said, it's demonstrable.

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Global shift to mass transit could save more than $100 trillion and 1,700 megatons of CO2 [View all] Rhiannon12866 Sep 2014 OP

Sure it could, and this is not new news, but... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #1

This study came out just before the UN Climate Summit Rhiannon12866 Sep 2014 #2

Depends on who "we" are. And the answer is "no" regardless of party. Ignorance. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #3

You can't localize a lot of production like airplane manufacturing, but... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #4

I would like that data, if you can muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #5

California: NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #6

OK, though I would say that losses should be taken into account muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #7

Going back to the OP topic, however, and my first reply... NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #8

I think energy in manufacture is far more, for anything imported by ship muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #9