Howard Winter wrote:
>> 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!

Not so.

I think what Bill is saying, is that if I'm a farmer or a car maker, of 
course I have to use more energy than my neighbor, who happens to be a 
tailor or a bookkeeper. And if my neighbor buys the crops I produce, he is 
as much responsible for the extra energy I used, as I am. 

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