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The Decline of America: Energy Policy


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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...." 

Source: In These Times, Dec. 12-18, 1990, page 6. 

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Following is a selection from "Twenty-Four Answers To Raise Questions 
About U.S. Energy Policy," released by Greenpeace News:  

change in federal funding for mass transit 
        from 1981 to 1989:                      -50% <=========== 


reduction in Department of Energy budget for 
        renewable energy between 1981 and 1989: 90%  <========== 

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U.S. proportion of world's cars:        35% 
U.S. proportion of world's population:   5% 
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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;" see the file "briefs"; 
originally published: In These Times, Sept. 19-25, 1990]