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Mea culpa,no insult was meant by my side.
On the oil price:As far as I am aware the US (home-)industry consumes more than twice as much energy to produce the same amount of wealth as the EU home industry.Correct or not?
Therefore they have a considerable higher problem facing accelerating energy prices.
Saving energy -as joe sod recommends- would make them even more incompatible as they are already.In China the same good produced costs only a fraction of energy what it costs to make it in the US.Free trade-once a flagship of the US- is not existing anymore.Marlboro and Coke made one step in the waltz to Asia-but it does swing back!The US gouvernment complain about the trade surplus of their Chinese trade partners was only the beginning of the last act. Here in the EU energy saving is big business,and in the US?As soon as an US politician only mentions an effective change in consumers/industry behavior he well be brought to the courts.See what happens to Arni's incentives in California.To stay compatible with the US wasters even German-US and Japanese-US car manufacturers are using the "legal" way to challenge the only way forward to a sustainable future."These laws are made for you and for me..."as Mr. Guthry sung in the 30s.You know,the trap door song.
Back home in Japan 10l/100km cars are banned,so in China.But in the US?
Here in Europe we have a social system that allows for slowing down the economy without riots and the need to keep guns under the pillow or putting a good deal of the population in work camps (slave camps like Angola/US would be unthinkable) where cheap goods are provided for an ailing working class. One black out in New York and the mob takes it's toll.They need it-the energy.Millionaires here can still go into a pub or wherever without hired gunmen to protect their lives.As it used to be in the US 30 years ago.When they used only half the amount of energy to get rich.
The largest energy user of the world (here
il) is the US Army.No where in the rest of the world such an ineffective/useless club of poverty drawn (virtually illiterate ,30%!!) money addicts are needed to keep the limping horse of US hegemony on the course.Even China teaches their soldiers to save energy.
And,to get to the point:
Would any one please furnish us with a balance sheet ?
Where is the breaking point in €s or $s for nuclear power to compete other forms of electric energy? In cents per Kilowatt hour please! And don't forget to include any costs.Like guarding(Terrorists!!) nuclear waste for a few hundred thousand years by the US army and so on....
This is Ask About Money here after all,so talk in numbers please and verify them.
I could deliver the numbers for alternative energy if there was a need by the community....