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Furthermore, This book I am reading, "The Wal-Mart Effect" claims that Walmart and it suppliers were responsible for 10% of all goods imported from CHina to USA during 2006. Do any of you know more about this? more recent stats perhaps?

Have any in your department studied the yearly fossil fuel input required into getting walmart goods into USA from abroad? I can see how this would be a difficult task since everything from metallurgical coal mined in BC, Canada that is used to produce the steel for the new factories in China could possibly count as inputs into that math. Of course, if you just focused on the shipping related fossil fuel use perhaps that would be more reasonable?

anyway, thanks again for compiling the Walmart data!!
keep up the good work,

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