terça-feira, junho 08, 2004
No passado dia 5 de Junho (Sábado) foi mais um Dia do Ambiente (e de São Bonifácio também, já agora).
E por isso,
"In the United States, where gasoline taxes average 43 cents a gallon (instead of dollars, as in Europe and Japan), a gallon of gasoline can be cheaper than a bottle of water - making it too cheap for most people to bother conserving. While oil demand is up everywhere, the U.S. remains the king of consumers, slurping up a quarter of the world's oil - about three gallons a person every day - even though it has just 5 percent of the population."
National Geographic, June 2004 (página 85)
E por isso,
"In the United States, where gasoline taxes average 43 cents a gallon (instead of dollars, as in Europe and Japan), a gallon of gasoline can be cheaper than a bottle of water - making it too cheap for most people to bother conserving. While oil demand is up everywhere, the U.S. remains the king of consumers, slurping up a quarter of the world's oil - about three gallons a person every day - even though it has just 5 percent of the population."
National Geographic, June 2004 (página 85)
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