I have visited Portland OR, Houston TX, L.A. CA, and Denver CO. It's been a while since I have been to Washington D.C., TTBOMK of all of them, Houston has the highest industrial base, with the port, refinery and other chemical plants in and around the area.
IMO, Houston is actually a better place than any of the others despite the petroleum & chemical plants. I don't know much about the other places on the list, but, could it be that the heavy industry ( that is very energy intensive ), is skewing the data? I also wonder if the fact that Houston is the youngest city, has something to do with it's ranking? Virtually all the other cities on the list are decades ( in a few cases even centuries ) older. Is there a correlation between the cities inhabitants and their ability to own / operate a vehicle and it's standing in the chart? What about it's energy consumption -vs.- the average per family income level, and the cost of living, this would definitely skew things in favor of large cities with large numbers of poor, after all they would not have a choice if they should walk, take the bike, ride the bus, or take the car. I'm not trying to say that I'm in favor of large cities, not at all, in fact I don't even care for small cities. I would be very interested in seeing the opposite end of the spectrum looks like, because I may have a summer job in a remote town in Alaska. The place is so remote, that nothing comes in by road, everything comes in by sea and by air, no road, hwy, or even RR into the place. Where a galleon of milk cost more than $8.00 a gal., I don't yet know what the cost of fuel is. Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: murdoch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 15:10 Subject: [biofuel] city density versus per capita travel energy used CITY DENSITY AND TRANSPORT CHOICE CITY INHAB/HA % WALK/CYCLE TRAVEL COST TRAVEL ENERGY PUBLIC TRANS % OF GDP MJ/INHAB Houston 9 5 14.1 86,000 Sydney 19 25 11.0 30,000 London 59 51 7.1 14,500 Paris 48 56 6.7 15,500 Munich 56 60 5.8 17,500 Tokyo 88 68 5.0 11,500 Hong Kong 320 82 5.0 6,500 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/