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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: ages Environmental Show Trials
- Message-ID: <3642@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:33:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.153426.21442@anasazi.com> <1992Aug20.125508.12570@ornl.gov> <1992Aug25.033510.25538@anasazi.com>
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- In article
- >In article <1992Aug20.125508.12570@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >]What about the missing option between A and B where modest efforts are taken?
- >]Remember Pareto's Rule--the first 90% of excess greenhouse gas emmisions will
- >]likely be cheaper to cut than the final 10%. Let's at least go after the
- >]cheap/easy ones.
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- Do you really think that a 90/10 "rule" has any significance in this context?
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- What is 90% of "excess greenhouse gas emissions"? Do you propose to reduce
- US energy consumption by 80%? What do you propose and what would it cost?
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- Are there any cheap/easy ones?
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- How 'bout fleet MPG to 40? Is that cheap/easy?
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- Isn't that what Clinton proposes? Or was it 45MPG?
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- Why not just raise gasoline prices to $4/gal over a period of time
- and let the market take its course? Seems "easy", is it "cheap"?
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