Bernhard, I really hope Bandarboy will stay on his vacation until November. Actually, I am not very unhappy about the oil price, maybe when it gets even higher things will finally start to change.
The other day I received a consumer magazine from my electricity company, with a nice article an how to conserve energy and reduce CO2. Unfortunately, it is too long to translate. However, in a separate box there was this model called the “2000-Watt-society” with a graph of the hourly watt consumption of primary energy per person, in different countries.
UAE – 14’500W
US – 10’500W
Russia – 5’700W
Switzerland – 5’100W
China – 1’200W
Bangladesh 200W
At present, it seems that the average per head consumption, worldwide, is at 2200W. The Goal would be 2000W, meaning that countries like China and Bangladesh would be allowed to use more energy and the most of the other countries would have to reduce their consumption. I guess the consumption of the UAE is neglectable in its effect on world consumption, considering its population that I think is small, but for the US it will be a tremendous challenge. The electricity company thinks this can be done through saving and through new technology. I must say I was pleased to read, that my electricity provider shares my own environmental philosophy.

Posted by: Fran | Sep 28 2004 11:45 utc | 2