[LomanBill]

>>No cell phones, no big screen TVs, no computers...

I believe the components for those items are not mfg in the USA.

Bought my first computer in 1982.

The efficiency of today’s big screens and PC’s exceeds the energy efficiency of the products on the market in 1992.

I’d suspect the CO2 produced to power those items for 300 million folks today is probably equivalent to, or even less than, the CO2 produced to power the items available in 1992.

[TigersEye]

It's not where they are manufactured it's having the electricity to power them. What percentage of the population had computers in '82 vs now? And more importantly 2012. If the CO2 emitted to power things then was so much higher per unit why are emissions higher now?

Bottom line; trillions in taxes and hamstrung businesses.