As a European, I generally agree, especially in terms of household construction, and insulation. These are easy things to do, and pretty easy to regulate when you give planning permission.
However, TCO falls flat on the floor with loads of stuff like lightbulbs, because they fail to take into account the fact basically _no_ energy is wasted when the house is being heated. All the energy goes to heat. All the energy heats your house. The _only_ time an energy inefficient light source is wasting energy is when you are not heating the house. For most of the UK population, that's about 1/4 of the time.
Solar panels are an absolute joke in the UK, they're a middle class government subsidised tax break, and no more. Seriously - the one place you don't want a solar panel is in the UK, it's got about the lowest sunshine hours in the world. I'm actually talking from one of the driest places in England - just over 12 inches of rainfall annually (honestly) - but we still get a lot of cloud.
European cars have led the world in being energy inefficient over the last 20 years or so. We left our 100mpg [wikipedia.org] production cars behind a long time ago.
Are things really cheaper in the US? Broadband & mobile plans seem more. Petrol's cheaper, because it's taxed a hell of a lot less. Apart from that, I don't really know... all I know is that cheese is expensive in Australia. On that note, I depart.
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