In the latest issue of City Journal, Peter Huber and Mark Mills try to put the numbers into perspective when it comes to the amount of energy it takes to support a typical city dweller over the course of a year:
Which sounds more efficient to you? And here's one columnist who's impressed by what he read.
[A]n apartment dweller on the Upper West Side substitutes two tons of oil (or the equivalent in natural gas) for Chicago’s four tons of coal. The oil-tons get burned at plants like the huge oil/gas unit in Astoria, Queens. The uranium ounces get split at Indian Point in Westchester, 35 miles north of the city, as well as at the Ginna, Fitzpatrick, and Nine Mile Point units upstate, and at additional plants in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.
Which sounds more efficient to you? And here's one columnist who's impressed by what he read.
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