drugs in Vineland---and drug laws

[Robert Mahnke]

Obviously, prisons use a lot of energy.  Who knew?

On 3/30/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Robin quoted:
>
> > Let's start with a premise that I don't think a lot of Americans are
> > aware of. We have 5% of the world's population; we have 25%
> > of the world's known prison population. We have an
> > incarceration rate in the United States, the world's greatest
> > democracy, that is five times as high as the average
> > incarceration rate of the rest of the world.
>
> Currently, the US also consumes 25% of the world's energy. What's
> the hidden conversion factor here?
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