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Old 03-06-09 | 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by genec
Most of the power generated in the US is by hydroelectric, coal, nuclear, and natural gas. Much heating is done with natural gas.
Read the words carefully: he consumes petroleum in the form of heating oil among others. Your observation is irrelevant.

Originally Posted by genec
I know many car free people that don't use gas.
Read the words carefully. He consumes petroleum in the form of gasoline used for non-work driving and heating oil, among others.

Originally Posted by genec
No, you merely denied the claims made by Popular Science with a few blanket statements that contained no facts or quantitative numbers what so ever.
genec, do you understand that a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove an absolute statement? And that I wasn't the person making absolute statements? Evidently not.
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