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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 1)

Production in China is much more energy intensive than in the United States, and that's before you look at the cost of shipping products 10,000 miles to market.......

Citation needed.

by Trond Ove on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 02:31:31 AM EST
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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 0)

just look at GDP/toe numbers.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 02:49:46 AM EST
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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 1)

Sorry, not an economist. I thought he was claiming that if two identical products were produced in China and the US, the US one would be produced with less energy.

by Trond Ove on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 03:17:12 AM EST
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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 0)

TOE stands for "tonne of oil equivalent".

See for example Wikipedia's List of countries by Energy Intensity

for the year 2003. It is given in units of tonnes of oil equivalent per million constant year 2000 international dollars.

The US beat China, but not by much (just 5%). Both were slightly above the world average.

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 04:41:31 AM EST
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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 1)

And now we only have to postulate that they have exactly the same energy consumption patterns to be able to use that measure to compare the energy efficiency of industry products.

by Trond Ove on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 10:55:12 AM EST
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Re: partly true, but nice graphs (none / 1)

Hmf... I am slow today... I just reread ManfromMiddletons comment, and he doesnt actually seem to be directly comparing industry products but to be talking about the Chinese need for oil. I will stop attacking strawmen now. :)

by Trond Ove on Mon Apr 12th, 2010 at 10:57:50 AM EST
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