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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
This country uses more energy than any other, we are not totally independent...
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Not true and we were a short time ago; and don't forget that the USA is among the largest of countries in terms of size and industrialization. This status of being, perhaps, the world's largest manufacturer was certainly true until corporations decided it was in their best interests to offshore production to China (for reasons so numerous we can't go into here). Ergo, China is the largest consumer of energy and probably the world's greatest producer of pollution as a result of lax/no laws to minimize it. This means the world's combined pollution has not been eliminated, merely exported to China.
Fred