The price of gasoline at the pumps in the Netherlands is currently 1.42 Euros per liter, the equivalent of $7.60 per gallon. The price of gasoline at the pumps in Venezuela is currently 0.097 bolivares fuerte per liter, the equivalent of about $0.16 per gallon.

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Driving: If the price of gasoline in US America rose to $10 per gallon, it would cost $225 to fill the tank of a Ford Explorer. Driving to work 10 miles and back would cost about $13 per day. If one worked an average of 230 days per year, yearly work transportation costs would near $3,000. Being that the average American drives a total of 15,000 miles per year, the money spent on fuel for the SUV would rise to a total of about $8,800 per year. It is estimated that at this rate, the gas bill for the average family would rise from 16 percent of its retail spending to 40 percent.

Air Travel: There are about 11 million commercial flights flown domestically and internationally to and from the USA each year. The planes get an average of about 0.2 miles per gallon of jet fuel at a wholesale cost of just over $1 per gallon. Averaging about 800 miles per flight, all US commercial airlines combined spend about $44 billion per year on fuel alone. If the hypothetical price increase were to proportionally affect jet fuel, commercial airlines would be forced to spend about $140 billion on fuel each year. Historically, fuel expenses account for about 15 percent of airline operation costs. Under the hypothetical price increase, fuel costs would account for 40 percent of operation costs driving the price of air tickets up at least $50 for every $100 in fares. And even with such a price increase, it is predicted that over 1 half of all American airplanes would be grounded as they'd be too costly to fly.

Electricity: As increasing fuel costs push people towards hybrid and electric cars, the demands for electricity would increase at least 2-fold. At current capacity, the US energy grid only supports enough electricity to power 84 percent of the country's automobiles – that is if all gasoline-powered cars were traded in for hybrids. With over 26 percent of the world's known coal reserves residing in the USA, and with no major investments in a sustainable energy grid, agencies would have no choice but to drastically increase coal-fired electricity production.

Food: Eighty years ago, it was rare that American foods ever travelled more than 100 miles from the farm to the consumer. Now it is estimated that the average American meal travels 1500 miles to get from the farm to the plate. Transportation alone is responsible for 8.5 percent of food costs. With gasoline costing $10 per gallon, transportation would account for about 26.5 percent of non-local food costs, and prices would rise more than 25 cents on the dollar. This would result in the resurgence of local, small-scale food production to eliminate the 26.5 percent cost of food transportation.

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If the hypothetical price increase was to come in the form of government taxes at the pumps, even with a 50% drop in consumption by American drivers, then in theory the government could save over $1 trillion per year that could be reinvested in a sustainable transportation infrastructure without increasing the costs of air travel.

China, with over 78,000 kilometers of railroad track, carries 25 percent of the world's total railway workload. It is the primary mode of long distance transportation with over 1.4 billion tickets sold each year at about 1 third the cost of air travel. With a new investment of $292 billion, China plans to extend its railway coverage from 78,000 kilometers to 120,000 kilometers by 2020.

By contrast, Americans only get about 0.56 percent of their total transportation miles by rail. Air travel accounts for 10.61 percent while highway driving accounts for 88.79 percent.


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A study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that of 2.4 billion drugs prescribed to patients in 2005, 118 million were antidepressants. That makes it the number 1 prescribed drug in the USA followed secondly by high blood pressure drugs with 113 million prescriptions. So nearly 10% of all prescribed drugs in the USA are meant for the treatment of overweight and unhappy people.

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According to a 2000 report by the World Health Organization, the USA ranks 37th of 191 WHO member nations for quality of health care. That is well behind all Western European countries as well as Canada and only 2 ahead of Cuba, countries that all have universal health care plans. Meanwhile, the United States remains the sole profit-oriented health care system among western industrialized nations with an average of 55.1% of health care coming from private expenditures. That ranking is in the company of other nations like Chad at 58.1%, El Salvador at 55.3%, Uzbekistan at 54.5%, and Syria at 54.2%.

An average of $5,274 per US American per year is spent on health care (other estimates reach as high as $7,129). All countries with universal health care programs, other than Monaco, spend less than $3500 per person per year (which includes out of pocket tax money that goes to the governmental health care programs.) Switzerland tops the list at $3,446. Canada is at $2,931. And Cuba is all the way down at $236—impressive for a country that offers free universal health care to all citizens regardless of income, has an infant mortality rate slightly lower and a life expectancy slightly higher than the USA, and yet is only 2 countries behind the USA on the WHO's rankings for quality of health care.

Because government spending already accounts for 44.9% of health care spending in the USA, $2,906 is left for the people to cover on their own. So, in essence, the government is still short $872 billion for a comprehensive health care plan that would cover all US citizens regardless of pre-existing conditions and severity of illness or injury.

If US American's could cut medical spending to the same rates as Canada, it would save the people $703 billion per year, only $169 billion short of what would be needed for the government to support a universal health care program. In 2006, the top 9 US drug companies acquired $220.5 billion in revenue with estimated profit margins between 15 and 20 percent, or between $30 billion and $40 billion. Health insurance companies had revenues close to $287 billion with a profit margin of 3.9 percent, or $11 billion.

The White House's 2006 defense budget was $419.3 billion, close to 20% of the total US federal budget. About $9 billion has been spent per month in Iraq resulting in the elimination of over 74,500 humans who will no longer need health care.

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China's rural population numbers nearly 900 million. Only about 7 percent of rural residents have insurance, while urbanites number over 50 percent. That means that only 263 million of China's estimated 1.3 billion have health insurance.

With the dismantling of China's commune system in 1978, China began its move from public to private, profit-oriented health care which favored the rich urban areas with quality health care while leaving the rural population behind. By 1999, local governments began to enforce regulations on the growing profit margins for routine checkups and surgeries. However, hospitals were allowed profit margins of 15 percent and greater for experimental drugs and treatments, thus doctors often administered unnecessary expensive and experimental drugs and treatments to increase hospital profits. Today these issues have been intensified by experimental drug companies offering doctors monetary incentives to sell their drugs in addition to the fact that nearly 1/3 of drugs administered in rural areas are counterfeit.

Yearly income among China's rural residents is estimated at about $316 per person. Per capita spending on health care is $261 per person, or 83 percent of their income, so that combined with corruption among rural hospitals and the fact that most good doctors follow the money to the cities, most will avoid seeking medical help even for the most serious of diseases or injuries. The outcome is that China has and infant mortality rate about 4 times greater than the USA and an average life span about 5 years shorter.

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China Life, China's primary life insurance company, has grown to be the number 2 largest insurance company in the world with a market value of $129 billion.


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According to the United Nations, 852 million people in the world face starvation. That is close to 1 of every 8 people.

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The body mass index (BMI) of a an individual measures the relative percentage of fat and muscle in the body by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared; meaning that since I weigh 62 kilograms and am 1.72 meters tall I have a BMI of 21.0. Normal BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9, overweight is between 25 and 29.9, and Obese is 30 or greater. America leads the world in obesity with 30.6 percent of the population having a body mass index of 30 and over. That means that over 3 of every 10 Americans is clinically obese. In contrast, only 2.6 percent of China's population is obese.

The average American has a BMI of 29.8 while the average Chinese has a BMI of 21.1. The average adult height of a American is 1.694 meters, which means that the average weight is 85.4 kilograms (188.3 pounds). The average adult height of Chinese is 1.641 meters, which means that the average weight is 56.8 kilograms (125.2 pounds). US America's adult population numbers approximately 222,000,000. China's adult population numbers approximately 951,000,000. That means that the America's cumulative adult population weighs 19 billion kilograms (42 billion pounds) while China's cumulative adult population weighs 54 billion kilograms (119 billion pounds).

If Chinese adults weighed as much as American adults, it would add 27 billion kilograms (60 billion pounds) to China's total human body mass. That is greater than the entire weight of the American adult population by 142 percent. If we consider fat and water to be of the same density where 1 kilogram of fat equals 1 liter, then that would mean 27 billion kilograms (60 billion pounds) of fat could fill the coliseum in Rome 1,000 times.

Vice versa, if Americans had a body mass index of 21.1, which would be considered healthy, then American adults would weigh approximately 60.5 kilograms (133 pounds). That would eliminate over 5.5 billion kilograms (12 billion pounds) of human fat from the planet's surface. This year, Sudan will be short 720 million kilograms of food for its starving people. Therefore, America's excess fat alone could fix Sudan's food shortage for over 7.6 years.

America's population with diabetes is 19.5 million, 6.5 percent of the population. China's population with diabetes has grown to over 50 million, 3.8 percent of the population. That number is expected to grow to 100 million by 2025. In the past 10 years, China's childhood obesity rate has doubled. Over 8.1 percent of urban children are obese while only 3.1 percent of rural children are obese. This is still far behind America's childhood obesity rate of 15 percent.

A study by a Cornell University nutritional biochemist named T. Colin Campbell revealed that US Americans consume 10 times more animal protein and 15 grams a day less fiber than the average Chinese. In addition, whereas Chinese only get about 15 percent of their calories from dietary fat, Americans get close to 40 percent. Campbell concludes that if Americans could reduce their calories from fat to 15 percent, they could reduce their risk of developing degenerative diseases like diabetes and cancer before the age of 65 by 80 to 90 percent.

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There are now over 790 McDonald's outlets and 1,200 Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in China. In 2005, McDonald's opened its first drive though in China. McDonald's plans to open 300 new outlets in the country over the next 3 years, more than half of which will have a drive-thru.


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According to a recent study published in Science magazine, if trends in world fishing and climate change continue, seafood populations will be completely decimated by 2048.

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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there is an estimated 1.38 billion trillion liters of water within Earth's dynamic system. However, only about 3 percent of the world's water is fresh water. Moreover, only about .3 percent of the world's water is usable by humans. With 6.57 billion humans on the planet, that leaves about 630 billion liters per person of accessible fresh water that we must share with the other living organisms on the planet.

The earth's human population grew by nearly 200 percent in the twentieth century and the consumption of water by humans nearly tripled. According to the World Bank, the world's water demands double every 21 years, and about 95 percent of the world's cities still dump their sewage directly into the water system. According to the World Water Council, by 2050 the planet will be short about 17 percent of the water needed to feed the world's population.

In 2003, humans consumed roughly 3.5 quadrillion liters of water. That comes to about 9.6 trillion liters per day, amounting to over 1,460 liters per person per day. China's annual water consumption is roughly 640 trillion liters per year. That comes to about 1,350 liters per person per day, whereas US Americans consume closer to 1,735 liters.

Of all water consumption by humans on the planet, 69 percent goes to agriculture, most to livestock. In the USA, for example, 80 percent of agricultural land is used to raise livestock. And where it takes about 1,000 liters of water to grow 1 kilogram of grain, it takes about 15,000 liters of water to grow 1 kilogram of beef. Water for personal use accounts for less than 10 percent of total water consumption, but is a growing concern as underdeveloped countries urbanize.

China has roughly 22 percent of the world's human population but access to only 8 percent of the world's renewable fresh water. China's urban population uses approximately 220 liters per day per person for personal use, over 10 times that of the rural population. From 1978 to 2004, China's urbanization rate grew to 41.8 percent from 17.9 percent. By the middle of the century, urbanization rates are forecasted to rise to 75 percent. That being the case, China will have to make over 85 billion more liters of water accessible to urbanites per day. A difficult feat considering 400 of China's 660 major cities already suffer from insufficient water resources.

In 2001, the Rio Grande failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico; and due to damning and irrigation, other great rivers like the Colorado and the Yellow at times barely trickle into the ocean while the Mekong and the Nile are in future threat of encountering the same problem—What did the fish say when it ran into a wall... Dam! As a result, desertification is slowly claiming all the fertile lands in Egypt while the Gobi desert creeps at a rate of 3 kilometers per year towards Beijing—now only 160 kilometers away.


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The Year 2006 approaches its end, and there are now 300 million people in the United States of America. Meanwhile, the population of the People's Republic of China continues to climb above 1.3 billion. That is 4.3 times the population of the USA.

The USA presently consumes an average of 20.7 million barrels of petroleum per day. China consumes an average of 6.4 million barrels of petroleum per day. Therefore, the USA consumes 3.2 times as much petroleum as China.

One barrel of crude petroleum is 42 gallons. That means that the average Chinese consumes 1/5th of a gallon of petroleum per day; and the average US American consumes close to 3 gallons per day. That is 15 times as much as the average Chinese.

Refined petroleum breaks down to 51.4% finished motor gasoline, 15.3% distillate fuel oil, 12.6% jet fuel and the rest as still gas, marketable coke, residual fuel oil, liquefied refinery gas, asphalt and road oil, lubricants and other refined products. In the process of refining, one 42-gallon barrel of crude petroleum actually grows to 48.4 gallons of refined petroleum products. So the average US American actually consumes 3.3 gallons of refined petroleum products daily.

If China consumed as much crude petroleum per capita as the USA, they would consume over 89 million barrels per day. Globally, proven petroleum reserves total approximately 1.3 trillion barrels. So if China consumed as much per capita as the USA, then the USA and China combined would consume over 40 billion barrels annually, depleting the world's proven petroleum reserves within 32 years. Accounting for the rest of the countries on the world, proven petroleum reserves would be gone within 20 years.

China presently averages 133 people per automobile. The USA averages about 1.6 people per automobile. That means that China only has approximately 10 million automobiles on the road compared to 187 million automobiles on US American roads. China is expected to account for 18% of the world's future growth in car sales over the next 10 years, and Chinese car makers are among the fastest growing companies in the world.

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The USA consumes close to 3.8 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. About 24% of that total electricity is created in coal-fired power plants. China consumes close to 1.8 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Roughly 75% of that electricity is created in coal-fired power plants. Over 95% of China's coal-fired power plants do not meet the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol; but China is exempt from this as it is considered a developing country.

China's energy demand is expected to grow to 3 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year by 2020. China presently consumes about 28% of the world's coal. Even at such consumption rates, the world's proven coal reserves are estimated to last at least another 155 years. And with over 26% of the world's coal reserves, the USA has the potential to become the next Saudi Arabia.

Of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, 16 are in China. The USA presently emits close to 6 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually from the combustion of fossil fuels. China presently emits close to 4 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year from the combustion of fossil fuels. By 2025, China is expected to emit more carbon dioxide (likely responsible for global warming) and sulfur dioxide (responsible for acid rain) than the USA, Japan, and Canada combined.

In 2005, China's industry for export was valued at $762 billion. China's industry for domestic consumption was valued at $640 billion. That means that in 2005, roughly 55% of industry in China was for foreign consumption.

65% of all primary energy consumption in China is for the industrial sector. So if 55% of the industrial sector is to satisfy foreign consumer demands, then 36% of all energy consumption in China is in the name of foreign countries – mostly developed countries who on their home soil would be obligated to follow the Kyoto Protocol (other than the USA who refused to sign the treaty.)


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