re government mandated energy conservation is unnecessary and wastful study finds in article c vzu i r newsserver technet sg ipser solomon technet sg ed ipser writes government mandated energy conservation is unnecessary and wastful study finds while i agree with much of this post one point seems mis directed when standards of living population densities and industrial structures are controlled for the united states is no less energy efficient than japan and more energy efficient than many of the group of seven nations and when controlled for usage of oil gas etc energy efficiency in all countries turns out to be identical to take population density as an example one way to reduce energy used in transportation is surely to concentrate the population in dense urban areas though this might of course have other disadvantages possibly even relating to energy use the fact that japan is forced to do this by the nature of the country while the us is not does not mean that people in the us would be unable to do this if given sufficient motive to conserve energy radford neal
