Bill,

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:06:36 -0800, William \"Chops\" Westfield wrote:

> 
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 3:54 PM, peter green wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Like I've said before; what make you think that the units (kgoe/person)
> for that number make sense?  How about kgoe per square kilometer,
> kgoe per million dollars GNP, kgoe per ton of crops raised, kgoe per
> ton of crops exported?

Because it's the people that use the energy - an area of land doesn't use any energy if you leave it alone!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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