On Jul 27, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Surely, one of the lamentable results of the US' poor
> record in teaching basic science (and anything useful
> really, about our technological infrastructure) is the
> absurd idea that driving cars is the heart of the
> petro problem.
Transportation accounts for well over a quarter of total energy use, and almost all of transportation's energy comes from oil. So it's not small, though you're right it's not the heart.
Doug