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- Subject: BUSH: The "Energy President" (I)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.195034.8526@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:50:34 GMT
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- Change in federal funding for mass transit
- from 1981 to 1989: -50% <===========
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- Reduction in Department of Energy budget for
- renewable energy between 1981 and 1989: 90% <==========
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- cost to build a mile of urban highway: $100 million;
- cost to build a mile of light rail mass transit:$ 15 million;
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- [Excerpted from "Blood is Thicker than Oil;"
- From: These Times, Sept. 19-25, 1990]
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- "Prior to the Gulf crisis, the U.S. imported 290 million barrels of
- oil a year from Iraq and Kuwait. Raising auto-efficiency standards by
- a measly 2.75 mpg, says the Silocon Valley Toxics Coalition, could save
- the U.S. the same 290 million barrels...."
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- Source: In These Times, Dec. 12-18, 1990, page 6.
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- NOTE: In Bruce Shapiro's book _We're Number One_ there is another
- incredible chart showing oil dependence in the 19 industrial nations
- over the last couple of years -- the change over the years ranges from
- something like -60% to +2% for all the countries except for the U.S.
- which is, as I recall, some 4 times higher than the highest.
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro, $10 paperback.
- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
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