> China	CHN	1,138.3
> Germany	DEU	4,203.1
> New Zealand	NZL	4,378.6
> United Kingdom	GBR	3,918.1
> United States	USA	7,794.8
>
> Where's the crisis of falling back to, say, UK or even NZ levels?
>
>   
As i understand it US society has a tendancy of doing everything bigger. 
Bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger gardens (meaning people travel 
further to work) and so on. Theese things were driven by the 
availibility of both cheap energy and lots of space.

energy is getting more expensive but the vast sprawling suburbs are 
already built. The big cars are already built (how long is it typically 
between a cars initial purpose and it's ending up on the scrapheap after 
being sold a couple of times?). The buisness arrangements that require 
long distance transportation or travel are already made and so on.


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