>Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>replying to Gar
>
>>Suprisingly this
>[energy tax]
>>probably is NOT the best way to reduce energy consumption.
>
>Hmm, why not? Greenhouse gas emissions are lots lower in Europe and
>Japan than they are in the U.S.
>
>Correspondence is not cause. Europe and Japan have had much lower
>growth rates than America in recent years.
I cited energy use per dollar of PPP GDP, so growth rates have nothing to do with it, and efficiency has everything to do with it.
Doug