http://www.telegraph.co.uk/****tal/main.jhtml?xml=/****tal/2008/07/05/sm_america05.xml
"The world burns 85 million barrels of oil a day, and the US alone
consumes
a quarter of that amount - of which more than half goes to road trans****t:
the US has the least fuel-efficient cars on the roads, the lowest energy
taxes, and the longest daily commutes of any industrialised nation.
It is an arrangement that James Howard Kunstler, the author of The Long
Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging
Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, describes as 'the greatest
misallocation of resources in the history of the world. America took all
of
its postwar wealth and invested it in a living arrangement that has no
future.' A future imperilled yet further by fuel prices exceeding $4 a
gallon - enough to occasion rising panic in a society where cheap fuel has
always been regarded as an entitlement."
And more if the peejays, jiggys etc have the guts to read the whole
article.
