NationMaster - Discussion - Energy > Oil

Mario Puccinelli 27th March 2012	We use more in our homes (heat, tupperware, baby diapers etc) than in our cars.
Franchesca 31st January 2012	Most of this is almost 3 years ago.
james taylor 13th October 2011	Why exactly did oil spike to over 100 dollars a barrel a few years ago, from like 25 or 30 dollars? As I understood things this type of huge movement would signal oil's peak basically worldwide or at least in the mideast. What caused this and why has it continued at such an elevated price. Also what has this done to consumption, they were predicting that sustained prices of only 30 per barrel would slow demand down so much as to give us a fighting chance to meet the 450 ppm climate change carbon level in time. Has this panned out. Also has the higher prices spurred conservation as it did in the 70's or has it basically been ignored as it seems to have been. Thank you for any help you might give me in this area
vivek kulkarni 10th June 2011	Hi, I want to do dissertation on below subject. A NEW DIVIDE OF HAVES AND HAVE NOTS OIL AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Where I will get data related to this subject? Thanks, Vivek Kulkarni
Upset Educator 29th May 2011	To WHATUP and others who refuse to post with dignity - I would have loved to have my students use this website and the data it presents for research in order to create solutions to the overuse of fossil fuels, especially here in the United States. Your use of crude language in the comments section has now made this site inappropriate for my 12 year old students. In the future, please think before you write. While you do have the right to "speak freely," that right also must be exercised with responsibility. Using inappropriate language on a public forum that children can access is irresponsible, negligent and just plain uncouth.
@ whatup 15th May 2011	whatever dude we have the most advanced technology in alterantive energy sources that other countries buy from us and we're not even the #1 per capita consumer- our avaerage per person usage is less than 21 other countries.
ms. minxy 3rd May 2011	The US owned oil peaked in the 70's. No new discovered oil fields since 2002, yet the consumption continues and grows. Saudi Arabia produces 73% of the worlds oil demand. 50+ countries have already peaked in oil. In case nobody knows what that means 'after peaking, the demand is met by reserves and trade', production starts its decline, but consumption does not. North America still has reserves but why use that when we can use everyone else's first?
justsomeone 24th April 2011	Compared to the chart on how much oil we have in reserves and some math work, Oil will last for about 300 years, based on the figures shown here.
Sam 23rd April 2011	To ALL Concerned, We started running out of OIL the day we used the first DROP, I hope this clears it up for most of you, what the ECO-NUTS are saying is True, but , it needs to be based in some-kind of REALITY
Mark Finn 5th April 2011	I would be curious to know rough numbers/percentages for a country (e.g. US) broken down by type below (I read somewhere that (1) is something like 70%): 1) Private vehicles. 2) Trucks and other non-public transport vehicles 3) Railways (freight) 4) Aircraft (excluding military) 5) Other public tansport (bus, taxi, trains) 6) Military 7) Industrial (including generators) 8) Home heating 9) Power generation
Ayerhart 31st March 2011	there are many strong points to be said about recent gas prices and the efficiency of this product but with new leaders being put to the test everyday they should be more concerned with the affect this crued oil is having on our planet and looking towards the future rather then dwelling in figures from the past.
Steven Don 25th March 2011	Could someone be able to tell me how much oil comsumption does the production of steel use on average?
Alex 23rd March 2011	some interesting figures, i've looked at them and say there are some positives and negatives of this. China has 3x as many people as the US but 1/3 the consumption. With free trade( if it continues), a skilled person in china should get as much as in the US, so eventually they will consume as much as the US or at least have as much access to resources to buy resources as the US, the US will be forced to be more efficient by the price of oil. On the other hand some European countries have $200 barrel oil, already. When that happens, USA starts producing oil from oil shale. Efficient consumption of resources should start before carbon trading becomes viable. i think.
EIV 12th March 2011	Can anyone confirm for me the total amount of oil sucked out of the Earth annually? Or do you know of a site that has this information in bbl/yr and cubic miles?
Threenotch 10th March 2011	I am shocked by the level of debate here... there are some here that speak from a basis of knowledge but most are completely uneducated about the single largest power source on the planet! How can we not educate people about our resources at least to the level of being able to discuss the use of and the distribution of said resource? Oil , Water , Oxygen do you know how much you use every day? Oil is a limited resource (not being made presently) Water is also a limited resource (not presently being made) Oxygen a resource that is made but only to the level that there is enough large forest area to make enough to replace that which is used. (presently oxygen levels are falling worldwide, and CO2 is rising along with methane and O3)
RSM 7th March 2011	1 barrel of oil equals 42 US gallons
Wow! 6th March 2011	Is there a page like this but for hydropower??? If so please post the link.!! PS.Why is it wrong to classify Hong Kong as a country? (Directed to 112358's post)
Bill 6th March 2011	I have a spreadsheet I generated using 2010 Oil Reserves and used comparison of consumption from 2006/2007. I would like to send the reports where info was retrieved from but don't know how to attach Total reserves in Oil 2010= 1,353.7 Billion Barrels of Oil World Consumption of 213 nations 31.07753878 billion barrels /yr It will take 43.6 years from Jan 1, 2010 to eliminate Oil reserves at 2007 consumption rates USA consumption in 2009 was 18,810 barrels/day or 6.87 billion/yr which represents a reduction of about 10% from 2007 data USA Oil Reserves 19.2 billion USA Produces 3.34 billion / yr This indicates our oil reserves will be depleted in 5.75 yrs. This data seems suspect unless you believe our oil will be used at same rate and depleted in 5.75 years. However don't plan on thinking a car, lawn mower or any other gas dependent vehicle or tool will be valuable for more than 40 years.
Wow! 6th March 2011	The US is crazy! I had no idea we used so much oil!!! Yikes! 24.3 percent!!
Kati 5th March 2011	How much is a barrel of oil? Like in gallons...
Adam Dude 19th February 2011	The bottom line is the USA consumes 25% of the worlds most important resource (which will run out in our kids lifetime) to sustain its own economy. The world isn't dependent on the USA but more the opposite. Especially considering about half of the oil that is consumed today from USA is imported. Another challenge is that, we are on the verge of global demand exceeding our global oil supply with the USA as the main burden which is driving up the cost of oil. This is the root cause of food prices going up and ultimately the unrest we are starting to see today in poorer countries. The numbers are just playing a game if you think they represent USA as more efficient users than the first 22 (USA 23rd on chart), as its just a matter of economies of scale. The first 22, all in total, only represent about 30% of what the USA consumes. If you take the heaviest 30% users of the USA consumption it would be significantly more than what these 22 countries are consuming. I hope this helps understand why the numbers look a little skewed. Another way to look at from the rest of world's perspective. If all countries were at a buffet party for only a fixed amount of food (oil) and each country represented 213 guests, the USA (1 guest) would be eating 25% of the food. Cheers!
Don 12th February 2011	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575376712353150310.html China passes US by 4% just in Oil consumption alone.
Jannick 5th February 2011	quite concerned - had an interesting discussion yesterday with some friends about how much oil we have left. Then I ended up here to see how much oil is consumed. Do anyone have an overview of or estimates on how much known and explored oil ressources is left on the planet? And another thing do you happen to have updated numbers? I would recon that China and India's consumption has exploded..... And another thing, our known ressources allready have peaked it's production. I don't know if we have an insurance ( forsikring ) when we happen to run out of oil. I am personally very concerned.
Aaron Quarner 3rd February 2011	The United States does indeed have a massive economic output. Comparitive to oil use, it is easy to say that America is 'oil efficient'. Yet to look towards the future, using 2007's oil usage data, China is becoming more and more efficient with it's oil. Their economic growth rate is exponential. In say, 30 years, China would become the most oil efficient out of the world super powers, having a massive economic output. Although this doesn't account for the massive booms in population, more and more people buying cars, and also China's extremely rapid industrial capacity. Also, as a side note, all capitalization to get your point across is not necessary. To get enviromental about this topic. America still consumes a large amount of oil each day. Although the total transportation emissions is less than 18% of the total emissions by the United States. Motor vehichles are a near 70% of that smaller percentage. Another large emission producer is the agriculture industry, ranking up at a percentage I'm not exactly sure of but I'm definitive that the percentage is above 30%. Mostly because of the meat products industry. Another 30% goes to electricity generation and heating for houses and apartments. The rest can be split up into numerous smaller percentages. From forest fires to decaying trash.
Duke DUke 26th January 2011	The US consume a lot of the worlds energy, not so much to produce products, but from driving SUV's, heating up McMansions, and utilizing more electronic gadgets than anyone else. As far as the US represented 26% of the world's economy, imagine where your iPhone is produced? Where the parts for your Ford truck are made, etc... Even American made products have parts made from oversea. If the US cuts back on energy consumption, it can make a huge difference in global warming.
ja 18th January 2011	look at the per capita. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con_percap-energy-oil-consumption-per-capita
tara+isobelle+t.+amene 9th January 2011	WE CANNOT DENY THAT AS THE WORLD GETTING OLDER, THE PEOPLE ALSO GETTING OLDER,AND EACH CONSUMPTION INCREASINGLY CONTINUE...OIL PRODUCERS ONLY RESPOND TO THEIR CONSUMERS NEED. THEY ONLY PRODUCE CORRESPOND TO THE NUMBER OF DEMAND...
tara isobelle t. amene 9th January 2011	we cannot really deny the fact that as the world getting older,we, the people consumption continue increasingly likewise in the oil consumption to the country we live in. the main reason to this is the producers just respond to the need consumers.
Lizzy and Christina 8th January 2011	this is not cool guys. its HORRIBLE. Got it? We have gotta stop wasting oil people. :(
Markus 28th December 2010	Remember the beginning of the crisis in 2008? Yet I think real estate was not the cause, but a consequence. The cause was the Oil-price: When oil prices go up by 75USD per barrel, the US-economy will pay 45 Billion USD more per month but gets nothing more in exchange. So the actual oil-dependency is less a sign of efficiency but rather not knowing how to deal with a huge risks. Forget environment, its the economics that will break Americas neck!
ler 28th December 2010	Ralph, You don't really get it. If the US wasted the oil it consumed compared to the rest of the world, it would a smaller percentage of the wealth of the world than the percentage of oil consumed. So not only does the US produce a huge chunk of the wealth of the world, it does it more efficiently.
Ralph 15th December 2010	"The USA uses 24.3% of the world's oil and produces about 28% of the world's economic output. Go figure! That means the rest of the world is less "oil efficient" than the USA." Because the United States' uses about as much oil as it produces does NOT mean that the rest of the world is less "oil efficient", in fact it means the exact opposite. The U.S. consumes a quarter of the world's oil per day,70% is consumed by the transportation sector due to the lack of proper public transportation systems, the non-use of public transporation systems, and the fact that our country uses the LEAST fuel efficient vehicles in the world (pick-up trucks and SUVs).
Jessica 14th December 2010	Thanks for publishing this list. If it's correct, at current global consumption, we will continue to have oil for 40 more years. (1,243,000,000,000 bbl in reserve/85,000,000 bbl consumed per day = 14,623 days left = 40 years) The USA apparently only has enough oil (21,000,000,000 bbl) to sustain itself for 2.75 more years if it weren't for exports. This oil reliance really is going to destroy western civilization as we know it, isn't it? We can't really do anything without it anymore. No CD's, tapes, music, computers - any thing plastic, really. All gone. No way to even produce alternative fuels like biodeisel or ethanol or solar panels or wind turbines or geothermal pex piping without oil. We won't even be able to maintain our water purification plants or other large infrastructure items.
gordon wright 9th December 2010	What is the worldwide daily consumption of oil today. How much oxygen is consumed from the atmosphere and converted in CO2 by burning oil. What % of the CO2 is converted back to O2 by plants?
UD Flyer 7th December 2010	The USA uses 24.3% of the world's oil and produces about 28% of the world's economic output. Go figure! That means the rest of the world is less "oil efficient" than the USA.
Talha Jamshaid 23rd November 2010	This is a very informative article..I have made my effort in explaing how the Current Energy Order is Changing and Changing Fast..The link is given below.. http://authorshive.com/2010/11/24/current-energy-order-is-changing-fast/
Nalat 16th November 2010	The second is on the bottom its the European Union who is second on the list
www 13th October 2010	you ppl do realise that this is in 2007 Saudi Arabia is now producing the most oil. The us is only producing 2% of all oil in the world but is using 25% of it thats horrible and almost all countries including USA have reached their peak and now are on a decline in oil..
internet 13th October 2010	you ppl do realise that this is in 2007 Saudi Arabia is now producing the most oil. The us is only producing 2% of all oil in the world but is using 25% of it thats horrible and almost all countries including USA have reached their peak and now are on a decline in oil..
A.J. Marshall Economist graduate 21st September 2010	AMERICA IS #1 BECAUSE OF ITS MILITARY. CONSTANT MILITARY MOVEMENT AND ACTION CHINA HAS 1 BILLION PEOPLE YET IT IS #2 AND USING A SIGNIFICANT 12 BILLION BARRELS LESS, THAN THE STATES
John Switz 17th July 2010	According to USA Today (7/17/10), the total spillage is between 94 and 184 Million GALLONS to date. Using 126 M Gallons, that is 3 M BARRELS to date. If the US uses 20 M Barrels per day, that is approximately 3.6 hours of consumption TOTAL, over about 90 days. That is about 2.4 MINUTES per day of US usage. Obviously this is a large well compared to others, and better options are not available, or BP would not have drilled at this depth. Yes, the spillage is high, and it is a huge mess BUT: It certainly is no indication of boundless oil. The "drill baby drill" gang tosses around all sorts of idiocy, such as instantanious self-regenerating oil (truth? about 300 M years), and likes to suggest this spillage implies boundless oil and/or this one well is enough supply for the US. Based on these numbers, we'd have to multiply this risk 600 times, assuming the supply even exists, and even THIS would be gone in 4 years.
macsporan 16th July 2010	Stalin's Lost Oil represents 2.5 months of global consumption--hardly earth-shattering.
sawyer 21st June 2010	Barrels or gallons? I've seen an upper estimate of 100k barrels, which would be 4.2 million gallons.
GressHasIssues 20th June 2010	We are not addicted to oil; we're addicted to cheap, available transportation. We're addicted, IOW, to freedom of movement. This freedom cannot be replaced by mass transport anywhere but large cities. Oil, then, is not comparable to drugs. It provides many benefits that we love(transport,plastics,clothing,containers) without an unmanageable set of negatives. We use a disproportionate amount because we produce a disproportionate amount of goods, to the world's benefit. Remember, also, that we have approx. 450M vehicles on the road in the US alone - for a long time into the future.
Dave 20th June 2010	The U.S. consumes 20,000,000+ barrels per day, or 800,000+ bbls per hour. BP is spilling (we hope) 40,000 bbls per day. This means that BP has spilled, after 3 months- less than 3 hours worth of domestic oil consumption. And you aren't going to find a lot of wells producing 40,000 bbls per day. Depending on the oil field, the well, and the field's life cycle stage, many wells produce less than 1000 bbls per day. So we are back to needing thousands of deepwater wells to be energy independent- and the more you put up, the quicker the fields will be depleted. And each of them is a potential multi-billion dollar eco-disaster. There would already be more deepwater wells if it were not so capital intensive- There are cheaper ways to get oil, unless we want to subsidize oil companies some more. That would go over well, since most companies are already making record profits.
David In WA 20th June 2010	BP estimates show 2.5 million barrels a day now (6-20-2010) with max-worst case scenario at 4.3 million barrels a day. Which is BAD, but not 8000 barrels a second. Consider that the US currently consumes 19.498 million barrels a day (according to the US Energy Information Adminstation as of 6-2009) That means we consume the amount spilled every day in approx. 6 hours. If our fascination with oil was reduced, we wouldn't even consider drilling, drilling, drilling.
Svempa 19th June 2010	Please note that the oil flowing from this damaged well is NOT 8000 barrels every second. It may be as high as 60000 barrels a DAY, which is less than ONE barrel every second. There is no single oil well in the world that flows 8000 barrels every second - it is a physical impossibility. Which you should have realized if you have any knowledge at all of oil.
GOC Germany 19th June 2010	Hello Please note the well does NOT produce 8000 barrels a SECOND. It produces 8000 barrels a DAY or possibly 20,000 to 50,000 barrels a DAY depending on whose statistics you believe. All of the wells in the world added together produce about 1000 barrels per second. (World oil consumption and production = 85,000,000 barrels a day). There is NO WAY the USA (or indeed almost all other countries) can be self sufficient in oil again unless massive new reserves are discovered or consumption is reduced to about a quarter of what it is now. Policies to increase production for self sufficiency from politicians such as Sarah Palin are just misguided ignorance. The USA uses about twice as much oil per person as the average of the other highly developed nations, most of this extra demand is due to inefficient use. The sooner moves are made to embrace alternative energy sources the better. The oil spilled in the gulf so far (maybe 1,000,000 barrels) represents only a few hours worth of world oil consumption, so in that context relatively little. It is of course a complete environmental catastrophe for the area concerned because it is a lot of oil in a small space. Just wanted to post this to keep things in the right perspective.
Concerned in South Dakota,US 19th June 2010	Thank you "Concerned in WI, USA". That's exactly what I was thinking. This one oil well, leaking 8000 barrels per second in the gulf, could be producing a significant portion (1/30th) of the United States' total oil consumption. With that kind of production from one well in the Gulf (there are thousands), the US should be independent of foriegn oil.
Svempa 18th June 2010	concerned, do your math again. The well is spilling a lot of oil into the GOM, but not 8000 barrels per second. They now believe it can be as much as 60000 barrels a DAY. A prolific well, but it still comes to less than 1 barrel per second.
someone 16th June 2010	concerned: it's between 35,000-60,000 barrels a day, not 8000 a second. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10293952.stm Where did you hear 8000 from?
Mr. Bobo 14th June 2010	to concerned in WI, US "The world knows that BP off shore well that is spilling 8000 barrels of oil per second into the gulf of Mexico" 8000 barrels per second? 8000 * 60 = 480,000 barrels per minute 480,000 * 60 = 28800000 barrels per hour 28800000 * 24 = 691,200,000 barrels per day the US consumes 20,680,000 bbl/day 691,200,000/20,680,000 = 33.4 days You are stating that that one well in the gulf is leaking the equivalent of 33.4 days of US oil consumption in one day? I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!
concerned in WI, US 11th June 2010	The world knows that BP off shore well that is spilling 8000 barrels of oil per second into the gulf of Mexico. If you do the math the United States would only have to have 30 wells of this type to be self sufficient. Now they say the spill might be twice as much as reported earlier. The oil companies have created a monopoly that the citizens of this world are paying. The US has more than 30 wells in this country and should be self sufficient. Where are all the politicians that say Drill, Drill, and Drill our way to independence from foreign oil? We already produce enough to be self sufficient. If more drilling is needed then these companies need to have safety measures in place and be willing to pay for their errors.
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zafar khattak 15th April 2010	what is the new list of countries cousumption of petrol
corey 12th April 2010	good website
sabrina 11th April 2010	WHO IS 2nd???
OldAxe 11th April 2010	Edgar Cayce (The sleeping prophet)foresaw a machine that produced more power than it used. How would the world markets react to unlimited free power?
Ziggy 25th March 2010	Its replaced by air and other things, and does not shrink the size of the earth. Look op the law of conservation of matter if you want proof. The oil has to go somewhere, and eventually ends up back in this earth. Just think of how much trash and waste we put on the earth. The amount of oil we take out is peanuts compared to this.
donell 20th March 2010	well my friends in short............ we're screwed when it comes to oil. My fellow people lets hope by the feature we find a new type of energy source....... one that CAN power the feature
Lutombi 18th March 2010	I can see that we seem to be worried over availability of oil and carbon emission only. What about the diminishing earth size? I am neither a Mathematician nor a Scientist but let me ask this: If a earth has a diameter of 13,000kms and we are pumping out 62.1 million barrels or 9.9 Billion litres per day(3.6 Trillion litres per year) What impact is this volume of oil drained from earth having on earth? Tsunamis? Earthquakes, Losing land to the rising sea level? I bet oil profits is also delaying the "full implementation of the electric & hydrogen car". Could Avarice be the main problem? When earth is gone what are we going to do with the profits?
Lutombi 17th March 2010	I can see that we seem to be worried over long term availability of oil and carbon emission only. What about the diminishing earth size? I am neither a Mathematician nor a Scientist but let me ask this: If a earth has a diameter of about 13,000kms and we are pumping out 62.1 million barrels or 9.9 Billion litres per day(3.6 Trillion litres per year) of oil, What impact is this volume of oil drained from earth having on earth? Tsunamis? Earthquakes? Losing land to the rising sea level? I bet oil profits is also delaying the "full implementation of the electric & hydrogen car". Could Avarice be the main problem? When earth is gone what are we going to do with the profits?
Leah Harred 25th February 2010	I can't believe the US uses so much oil. It is also the number 1 energy consumer in the world.
Steve 24th February 2010	Global oil production peaked in the first quarter of 2008. It also happens to be the date for Peak Oil. World output is running flat out, and wildly changing prices only change consumpiton to meet supply. Normally, price changes, change supply to meet the demand. The U.S.A reached Peak Oil in 1970. Production is now half of the 1970 rates despite lots of residual oil, better technology to find oil, and better technology to extract it. U.S. oil production has now fallen back to the 1947 levels. Global output will be half of todays output in 40 years, with twice the population to share it.
stacey 8th February 2010	very helpful. . . for school projects i actually like it.
Steve 29th January 2010	Why did you calculate 2430AD ? The world consumes ca. 85m/day x 365 days = 31 bn / year. As the whole world has only proven reserves of ca. 1,300 bn / 31 bn consumption = 42 years from now i.e in 2051 we have no oil left !!! Most likely even earlier, as consumption should grow further with the growth of the developing countries (China, etc). On the other hand, gas will last much longer and I am sure humanity will find/create alternative energies.
Kirt 26th January 2010	Continuing at this rate of oil consumption, the world wont run out of oil until 2430AD. Keep it up, World. Keep it up
Tyler Say-Rathbone 7th December 2009	Why is there not a number two in the chart
Angela 29th November 2009	Jesus is definitely coming back. But I agree with you in that we should be concerned about our world and try other ways of energy consumption than burning fossil fuel.
JC NOT Jesus Christ 21st November 2009	Jesus Christ isn't coming back and awaiting his return versus advocating the strict reduction of oil consumption around the world is a foolish notion.
CHESNEY WRIGHT IN THE HOUSE 15th October 2009	THANKYOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS HELPFUL SITE
Jake H 30th September 2009	The #2 rank is the European Union. It is located on the bottom of the chart because the EU is representing numerous countries, obivously
Jason 30th September 2009	I don't see a #2 ranked when I view the page. U.S. is first, then list skips to China #3...
Gopal Raj Kumar 9th August 2009	There is a mistaken belief that all crude oil output goes into use as fuel for cars and caftories. A large portion of the crude oil itself goes into the manufacture of synthetic materians that actually go into cars and other items from roads, clothing, medication, chemicals and a host of other things we use in our daily lives. There is a huge scare campaign that fossil fuels are solely responsible for the carnage of mother nature. During the time of Noah and the great flood (whether you like to believe the biblical version off that flood is irrelevant) fossil fuels were not in use as abundantly as they are now. The quantity and the intensity of the areil bombardment of places from Viet Nam (twice the mount of incendiary devices dropped during world war 1 and 2) coupled with Iraq, Israel and its neighbours, the enormity and the intensity of nuclear testing by Britain, the US, USSR, France and the new commers dwarf the damage done by cars and factories. lets not simply give Al Gore and his mates a second bite of the cherry now shall we. Hiss father served Armand Hammer as did he. No need for hype. Lets get the facts straight.
Ramesh 16th July 2009	When I was in India, was using mostly my bike (two wheeler) and would rarely take the car out when going with family. We use the bus and train as well a lot. Now in USA we are family of 3 and own a VAN and 90% use it for commuting while for long distance the alternate would be to fly. So here people don't have other options available. Government is forcing public to use cars or to fly. The reason being USA has invested a lot on highway roads and now forcing to use it. I don't need a van, but still own it, it was a want not need for me. unnecessary or over usage of energy is most common practice found here, which can be avoided to save our earth.
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H 24th June 2009	What products are made of oil ?
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girtrude (frankley) 11th March 2009	why do USA use so much?
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david Percival (Kenya, Nairobi) 20th February 2009	The world recession has provided a once off opportunity. The current price of oil is aound 40$ a barrel. The sure way to reduce the use of fuels is to raise the price by putting a world tax on it to double the price. The revenue generated by the producing countries could then be applied to installing renewable alternatives. This would give a long lasting income to the countries who produce this oil, as they all realie that their income from this once off hit is going to run out with the oil. So we give them a future revenue stream from selling energy coming out of their investments in other countries where this tax is used to generate alernatives. If the current price was again increase today to 80$ a barrel, it would again reduce demand, potentially increasing the span of time till the oil runs out. How on earth can we get everyone to see that this is a viable course, as I don't know how, but see it as a future possibility. dp
Oogii (Mongolia) 7th December 2008	The current fall of oil price is just temporary, since there is limited source of oil in the world, it is price will increase quite soon again. Be ready
Matt (Houston, TX) 19th November 2008	As scarcity of oil incrases, thus raising price, it creates more exploration opportunities. At an $80 price point, shale oil becomes a possibility to use if all other oil options are exhausted. The US has about 4,000 years worth of shale oil available. Oil isn't going to run out, sorry. What does need to happen is a mixed energy policy that seeks to diversify into new technologies to LIMIT our use of oil overall.
Terence (Lakeland FL) 1st October 2008	I just finished reading the USGS report on ANWR and NPRA and the POTENTIAL yield. They are saying the mean potential is 30 Billion Barrels of oil. My question is, how long would it take the world to use up all the oil discovered in Alaska, if those numbers are accurate?
Chris (Australia) 26th September 2008	"If there were half as many people on the planet we would consume half the amount of oil. It really is that simple!"-william wehrle(saint peters, MO USA)2nd May 2007; No, I don’t believe your statement to be correct,its not that "simple". The USA consumes 25%/30% of the worlds known oil supply (WKOS). Hypothetical if the world’s population was to decrease by 50% and therefore the USA’s population had also decreases by 50%, this solution would not reduce the total WKOS consumption by 50% because the main consumer’s reduced population still depletes the WKOS at 25%/30%. This macabre solution would only work if the WKOS was depleted by every country evenly! Now if you remove or reduce the USA’s WKOS consumption that would be a significant help though. Does anyone else think that it’s a bit of a coincidence that the main consumer of the WKOS is now invading country’s that can provide them with a more stable oil supply. Hmmmm!
Jeff Morris (Indianapolis IN / USA) 8th September 2008	WOW. I would buy a electric car if it went 150 miles betwee charges and it was as big and cost the same as my Honda Civic.
Woody Dorsey (Hampton, Virginia - USA) 31st August 2008	I wish to ask the question: What is the amount of oil that has been extracted from the earth since the beginning of the industrialized world, and what is the effect on the spin (rotational speed) of the earth due to that extraction, causing weight displacements throughout the earths structure. The continuous extraction of oil and gas is similar to filling a ball full of water and then rolling it (it would roll true) and then taking some of the water out. It would no longer roll true because of the sloshing effect and uneven weight distribution. As a retired Mechanical Engineer, I am working on this answer but wonder if anyone has put thought into this before me. Thanx
monkeyfurball ( usa) 28th August 2008	The only revenge is owning a dozen oil service and drilling stocks. Throw in a couple nat gas stocks too. I have been doing this since 2005---these stocks have minted me money.
Thomas (Texas) 25th August 2008	How much of that is fuel? Do we have the % of regular gas and diesel fuel? I know its a funny question but I am working on somthing. The % is just for the U.S. and on a daily % of concomption.
WayneSMT (Livingston, Montana) 12th August 2008	William, I wish it were that simple, but you know human nature as well as I do. If there were half as many people on the planet on a long enough timeline we would start to use just as much. And if it isn't America buying the oil, it will be whoever has the money and there sure are alot of countries out there that are racing to accomplish their own version of the failed American dream. My God, Hong Kong, if I really liked it there I would make myself small and live inside of an old PacMan machine cause that is what it feels like. Matty: Nuclear power is great. Tell me have you figured out where to store the spent nuclear material? That is the kicker isn't it? www.waynesdrainsmontana.com
James ((New Hampshire, USA)) 9th August 2008	I agree with Phil - the problem is the huge @$$holes that own Hummers when cars that have 40 miles to the gallon are now available. Even then, you could take it a step higher and buy a hybrid or a car that doesn't FIEST on gasoline. This is ridiculous.
TI (MI USA) 2nd August 2008	@ ALBERT LOBATO: Global warming can be arrested or reduced through less immigration to the US? That is SOME LOGIC!
RPG (CA, USA) 24th July 2008	Thanks for providing this valuable inforamtion and educating the general public. This extreme addiction to oil is bankrupting our economy, enslaving us to Middle East, polluting the planet and causing so much death and destruction around the world (directly and indirectly). Having an oil friendly administration ruling this country for past 8 years, made the problem only worse. Bush and Cheney are single handedly responsible for so much of this mess and they are still in power....What a shame!
Tom F (Atlanta, GA) 15th July 2008	I would love to see this chart graphed over time along with the avg. price of a barrel during the same time. If the current price increase is truly a supply/demand situation that should be evident in the growth of the demand side at least, since oil production has remained relatively steady.
Fred (Ohio, USA) 15th July 2008	The American people are led to believe that only oil producing countries in the Middle East are taking advantage of the USA by charging $145 bbl? The USA produces 7.5 million bbl/day about 1/3 of it's daily consumption, yet we are charged $145 bbl by the oil companies here in the USA. This is the same price that is charged by other producing countries. Why can't we get a price break from those so called American oil companies? The least we should do is inform the American people what our own companies are doing, and to shift some of the blame away from other countries.
kannan (kharghar, navi mumbai, india) 21st June 2008	if one compaers the per capita consumption from the above table Energy Statistics > Oil > Consumption (most recent) by country it is very clear that china and india with over 2 billion population consume much less oil compared to u.s.a and other developed world. these nations have to come at least /4 the way up the ladder to at list satisfy their poor and vulnerable.
Craig (Atlanta, GA USA) 20th June 2008	It's difficult to find authoritative information about oil consumption, how the market price for a barrel is determined, and how much oil is available in which countries. I have a couple of specific questions: What percentage of the world's oil is consumed by America? What is the difference between proven and unproven reserves? What percentage of the world's proven oil reserves does America have? What percentage of the world's unproven oil reserves does America have? If American companies began drilling offshore, how long would it be before oil would begin to flow into the market? If American companies did begin to drill offshore, would they be required to sell exclusively to the American market? Would they have any incentive or regulatory responsibility to sell it at considerably lower prices than the current world market price?
Josh (Green Bay, WI) 20th June 2008	The United States does consume the most oil, but is 15th in oil consumed per capita. Also, we should have more refiniries, drilling, and nuclear plants around the USA. These would help gas prices, but democrats have opposed these things.
Jerry Leffel (Indianapolis, IN, USA) 18th June 2008	With the US oil consumption at appx. 20.7 Mbbl/day and a refining capacity of 14.7 Mbbl/day, what good does it do to just drill more holes in US offshore reserves that haven't even been explored or taped?
Andy (USA) 10th June 2008	Predicting oil consumption 20 years from now is as absurd as predicting CD purchases 20 years from now... The future is changing too quickly for us to make any sort of reasonable predictions.
Observer (Texas) 6th June 2008	This has been a fun read. The U.S. is the largest economy in the word and it is the largest consumer of oil. It is also the most efficient economy in the world and that is born out in any basic Economy $$ / bbl used. The Global warming claim is exactly the way most of the comments are written here, it is an anti oil disguised as environmental. The facts are that when mount St Helens blew, it relased more CO2 in its eruption than the U.S. produced in the previous 100 years. Normal non-human global activity accounts overwhelmingly for what we observe. On average, the earth cooled a whole degree last year. Normal cyclical change, or did we cause that too? Honestly we think to much of ourselves and our importance to this planet. Having said all of that, CO2 may contribut to global warming, but for the most part our engines today only about 1/3 efficient and turn the other 2/3 of the fuel energy directly to heat. We need to pursue technologies that minimize the direct heat addition to the environment. This puts me in the solar and wind camp for long term solutions. As for Hydrogen, the strongest green house gas is water vapor. The last thing we need to do move to a process that produces water vapor as its sole output. Lastly, stewardship. We should all be good stewards of our environment and our economy. We should not sacrifice one at the expense of the other. We cannot blindly consume fossil fuels because it is economically expedient, nor can we "Save the Earth" at the expense of a comfortable existance. We must find a balance.
max (Boston) 21st May 2008	OK, so if China's increase in oil demand went from 7% -> 7.9% in 2 years and caused oil prices to more than double...in 2010, when China reaches 8.5% in consumption, oil will be $250 a barrel!! If it's not, OPEC is clearly gouging the world.
Gene (Louisiana) 14th May 2008	All of my vehicles get better than 25 MPG (4-cyl). My motorcycle gets better than 45 MPG. I have quit RV-ing, sold my diesel truck,selling my rv, stopped long driving vacations, raised the height my lawn mover blades. My small little efforts, seem futile,the price of oil just keeps going up. If I stayed home home and burned candles, the price of oil would still go up, so whats the answer ?
Dave (Ohio, USA) 13th May 2008	Congress should take big oil subsidies and that money to create an electric rail system like Europe has. Until then Americans will still consume more oil than any other nation as we live one place and work another. Its not that we can not do it but Bush is forcing Americans to pay more for oil and not giving them another means of transportation. We need an option to buying gasoline to get from point a to point b. Gasoline consumption is our only choice in most states. This will require more electicity meaning more power plants. Hiring construction crews and railway workers.
Whatsup (Ohio) 8th May 2008	You should look at oil consumption per person from a country. Japan maybe number 3 on the list but its population is only 1/3 of the u.s. and it is 1/12 of China's population but its consumption is about the same of China.
MIchala Freeman (Illinois) 24th April 2008	The Us needs to cut down on oil consumption, because our reputation is worsening every time we talk about energy. We are one of the worst energy efficient countries in the world.
Yi (Mongolia) 3rd April 2008	If the price of oil goes down, people will simply consume more of it. There is no stopping people from consuming more and more oil.
S (N/A) 19th March 2008	The truly scary aspect of this information is that it is all very dated. The CIA World Factbook's consumption rates are based on 2004/2005 stats. Alas. Ignorance is bliss.
Jack (Highland California) 12th March 2008	While its true that China will catch up to what the US consumes now by the year 2025 or there abouts by the year 2030 China will catch the US in oil consumption and then pass us. Nuclear power and coal are not renewable sources of energy and they will run out. The top scientist at UC Berkeley stated recently that solar energy and energy conservation are the two keys to energy independence.
Paul (Australia) 17th December 2007	Please check out Sliver Cell technology developed in Australia and why the space race to mine the moons helium 3 by USA,China,Russia,The EU and others.
Lord Truth (Europe) 17th December 2007	This is getting really interesting! America is nowadays regarded as a completely untrustworthy nation yet its surprising to find this confirmed by your statistics which apparently come from the CIA! Is British oil consumption really lower than Italys? Sorry -but anyone who believes these stats is certainly misinformed certainly about Britain in ANY of them-but Britain is of course Americas main enemy so you naturally would see she was kept down Incidentally to see what nonsense the CIA puts out look at the stats for poverty--17% in the U.K. and 12 % in Thailand-the personal incomeper head in Thailand is about 4000dollars- in the UK about 40000! Theres something wrong here!!! The thought that US students actually use these twisted figures is terrifying,no wonder you are going down the toilet so rapidly
Steph (Detroit, USA) 8th November 2007	Doing the Math, we'll have no more than 30-35 years of oil reserves to dilapidated, before it's over. Total world reserves: 1,293 billions barrels (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html) divided by daily consumption (data above) equal around 35 years, at the most. Scarry
Amy (Missouri, USA) 25th October 2007	I have always believed an effective way to cut down on oil consuption would be using solar panels to power our homes. I think if a law was passed stating every new building built valuing over $90,000 should be built with solar panels to power the building. In the average home this would be about a $10,000 investment, a value that can be easily worked into a 30 year mortgage. Not only can it be worked into the mortgage, but it pays for itself. It may take about twenty years but you are also protecting your environment. It is not like solar panels are any kind of new technology anyway, so I do not understand the fear in that. Solar panels are getting better than they have ever been; more attractive, lower maintenence, more cost efficient. The sun would obviously be able to provide enough energy for everyone on Earth considering an entire solar system revolves around it. Besides, the more people using solar energy, the better and cheaper the technology would be. More repair and installment companies would begin to pop up because there will be a need for them. The damage to our ozone layer would greatly decrease, and the process of global warming would be prolong, but all of that is just what I think. Besides, what do I know, I am still in high school.
dorothy (burlington) 25th October 2007	when did the global consumption of oil become higher than the new discovery of oil?
V (NE - US) 8th October 2007	'Population control...a sad but undeniable truth that we all must accept someday.' The world is in a death spiral. Our population has grown to levels where it has passed the point of no return for supporting a sustainable human population as we know it today. And leading the pack of over consumers is the USA. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption Consumption is ingrained in us and we know no other way. And even if we wished to amend our ways, how could all our retirement funds take the hit? America is built on borrowed money, spending and consumerism. And what does all that consumerism lead to? it leads to the mess we are in now and the bigger mess the world will be in once India and China pick momentum to copycat the envious lifestyle that they have held as the 'American Dream ' Now, I don't get me wrong. I love our country and would rather live here than anyplace else in the world. But be that as it may, our country and the rest of the world is built on unsustainable means and the bill is coming due soon for our spending spree. Since the US is said to be about 75% Christian and was founded on maximum freedom for its people, I doubt whether the US will ever come up with a population control plan. It would be too controversial and it goes against promoting life, certain religions and personal freedoms. And let me be clear, I am not promoting atheism -- for if I had to die in a hot box from global warming, I would rather die with the Christians praying than with the atheist cursing. See: "What the hell would we need 'spiritual values' for when we can have real values." http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=509.0 And while I cannot deny the wisdom of promoting life as many religions profess and personal freedom, sometime we must accept the lesser of two evils if promoting life turns into being more destructive to life than 'not promoting' it. It then becomes a decision whether to choose between the 'greater good for the whole' or the 'greater personal right for the individual'... and the whole be damned. (Whole meaning entire human population of our planet.) For instance, on a farm if the plants are planted packed like sardines (or 'packed like sushi' as they say in Japan) the plants do not flourish. In nature, trees that are overcrowded weed themselves out by nature's decree. But if man forced the trees to not weed out and forces crowding the trees may die from disease due to a forced and unsustainable growth plan. So it goes with how our planet is evolving...a sad but exactly true statement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation Now, I a not a tree hugger, green peace freak or communist. I drive dirt bikes, love 2 stroke 500cc thumpers, run jet skis and snowmobiles and could consume along with the best of em. But I do respect and admire nature and most of all I respect and admire life and have had to 'mend my ways' so to speak once it sunk in how things were. And in the process I have given up a lot of personal desires for the greater good of the whole. You see, the problem is not with the earth having enough land for all its people - the problem is with earth providing ad infinitum for all the needs the people crave. The more people born, the more heat is produced from their life and all their cravings, As such, the warmer and more polluted the earth gets and the more energy they all use and the earths resources are depleted. Fueling the problem of consumption is the games the Federal banks play with interest rates. They manage the economies in ways to fuel consumption to mask the real trend. Our economy is not based on sustainable health - it is based low interest credit to encourage compulsive spending, debt, living a life of constant consumption with a 'disposable mentality' when it comes to durable goods. All this consumption contributes to more and more global warming and the depletion of our natural resources. Then the governments juggle the numbers to make the inflation figures seem artificially low, so everyone's retirement portfolio will make them happy so they will continue to buy and consume more...and on it goes. You see, no other animal destroys its environment except mankind. We are the only ones that do not accept and live within our comfortable means. We not only debt with our finances we debt with our environment. What we are borrowing in terms of petroleum, coal and natural gas takes millions of years for nature to make. Yet we are using it all up in just a few hundred years we can never pay it back. And even if you are f a religious bent that think God created it all 6000 years ago. What took 6000 years will still be used up in a fraction of the time it took to create it. Some theists say we need to pray harder to God to fix our mess. Other theists say it is Gods punishment raining down on us? No telling since God doesn't have much to say on this topic. See: 'Why is God silent - I don't know?' http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=504.0 The scary thing is China and India are just starting to bloom with their demands for fossil fuels We haven't seen anything yet with the meteoric rise of gas, energy and over consumption. In China the per capita car ownership rate is 40 car owners per 1000 persons. In India it is much lower, running 8 cars per 1000 people. As these two giants evolve more of their population will want cars...in India, they are making a $2500 car as well. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/05/percapita_car_o.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20394364/ But what can one say about the problem unless people just cut back reproducing? Everyone has a desire to have some sex stimulation and through that stimulation comes more and more people. And everyone has a desire to keep warm when it is cold or to keep cool in the heat or move about the earth and wear clothes. And it is from all those desires that global warming fueled through the expenditure of fossil fuels takes place. But the sad reality is even if people cut back having babies, we are only delaying the inevitable and that alone will not fix the problem. It can be compared to men stuck underwater in a crippled submarine. The more they move around, the quicker they run out of air and die. The less they move, the longer they can live...but the end result is the same. Now maybe some genius will come up with a replacement for petroleum, natural gas and coal to meet all out needs. But it is unrealistic to think we can grow enough corn to fuel all the trucks, airlines, cargo ships, cars and other needs we humans have in addition run all the power plants and factories, heat and cool our homes. You see all our energy needs are met with non sustainable non renewable resources whether it be coal, petroleum, or natural gas. Even nuclear power is dependent on the mining of uranium and has limits as to how long the supply will last. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4287300/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves But lets not project too far in the future and try to keep our minds on the problems at hand. $10 a gallon gas in the future? What about $40 a gallon gas?? No doubt! All we have to do is look to history for the answer. When I first took notice of gas prices in the early 70's gas was .22 cents a gallon. No one would have thought that gas would take a 1360% rise in price in 3 1/2 decades. In addition to cars and gasoline, tons of other products and industries are dependent on crude oil as a component for their products. http://www.lmoga.com/refoutput.htm I can see how life has degenerated in recent years and this is just the tip of the berg for things to come. I am not an alarmist as one lady accused me, but I would do humanity a disservice if I did not bring this topic up now an again for discussion. See my post "Your sanity is my sanity and my sanity is your sanity." http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=628.0 When you bring up population control the talk naturally turns to China and India. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2872/is_1_27/ai_71563390 And population control alone is a controversial subject to discuss ..."when you get beyond the mythology and seriously examine the one-child policy, it is clear the policy is not viable even if one can stomach the horrendous human rights violations it entails." From: http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/countries-of-the-world/asia/china/chinas-one-child-policy/ But in reality, there is no such thing as 'opinionated' - 'provocative' 'controversial' subjects. These are only subjective and prejudicial states of mind. Such 'mind blocks' may bother one, but do not bother another. As such, all problems related to 'controversial subjects' such as this are problems created in the mind...the mind of ego based, prejudicial man. My own opinion is this: Since the US enjoys so much freedom, be it freedom of religion or freedom of personal liberty, I doubt whether anything will ever be done with this topic and we will just keep growing with our population and our insatiable demands. Any president would do doubt have little success in getting anything done with population control. We can hear the cries now...Communist!...Atheist!...Baby Killer....Hitler!!!! So the best thing for the president to do would be to put it before the public every 3 years in a national election to get America's verdict on the subject. Put America on record. Then at least the president could say he tried, but the people of the US prefer to thumb their noses at the rest of the world and the vote is in...we will do as we like. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption When we can understand that all humans are interdependent and not independent of one another, we come to realize that we all share the same breath. If anyone is against population control and has no other viable alternative to offer other than Communist!...Atheist!...Baby Killer....Hitler! - when they are asked what can be done to slow down global warming - slow down over consumption - slow down the destruction of the human race that hell bent on growing at an unsustainable pace - they should respond: "I just don't care...that is someone else's problem not mine." Now, I don't claim to have the magic bullet to fix all our woes. I'm just a simple philosopher not a scientist or genius. All I can do is to bring the problem to the forefront and ask that we all work in a more healthier direction that the one we have been headed in. (It seems global warming can't be fixed, it can only be slowed down...too many people on earth to fix it...to many demands...too many cravings...best we can do is to slow it down) Take care, V (Male) Agnostic Freethinker Practical Philosopher AA#2 vfr44@aol.com
Napoleon (Philippines) 1st October 2007	With the problem of oil, indeed it is a great concern, but the problem is there already. All we can do is make the best to solve the problem. We don't need to stand and argue, we need to act now to finsd a solution. I would like to show you a site: www.eranio.ph that offers an electronic device installed in the air intake system of an internal combustion engine that effectively captures, reuse, recycle air pollutants and reduce emissions, making it burn fossil fuels efficiently and cleaner, save on fuel and increase the performance of engines; from motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks, generators, and heavy equipment, to boats, (Diesel or Gasoline.) With the fuels saving of 10-15% in city driving, and the reduction of emission by more than 90%, it might help in easing the worsening problem of air pollution in every country. It has been test for trials in the US and the savings are an average 20% and the emissions on cars without catalytic converters are amazing, and the performance increase is 20% more. See the product AERO-NOX in the site. It transforms the air captured in the air intake system and converted as NOx (Nitrous Oxide) to enhance the combustion of fuel in the engine. With better combustion, fuel is burned with reduced emissions. Go and visit the site. Thank you.
Phil (NC) 1st October 2007	The problem is the general American public is a huge group of retards. How about make the SUV ILLEGAL unless you have a useful work purpose or a family of more than 5? Lets see- I'm a stupid American who drives a suburban and I'm going to complain when gas costs 3.25 a gallon and my vehicle costs 75 dollars to fill up...
Mike S (New York, NY) 24th July 2007	Do these numbers include oil consumption for non combustion purposes (e.g. oil derivatives used to make plastics, etc.)? I find it interesting that most people in the U.S. know that we invaded Iraq to control its oil supply but most don't realize how dependent we all are on that oil to live. Given that if our oil supply were cut off tens of millions of Americans would starve to death and the rest would be forced into a standard of living from the early 20th century, do you really want other nations to control it?
Fred Bowser (Kansas, USA) 12th July 2007	The figures in the list of countries by consumption are in bbl/day which is ? billion barrels a day, but obviously this is wrong because it should be 20,000,000 bl/day for the U S . Maybe I do not know the abbreviations for this.
Kelley (Virginia, US) 12th July 2007	Our military consumes more fuel than any of 170 of the countries on the list. Perhaps we should address that issue.
erik (Canada) 26th June 2007	does anyone know the current excess surplus of oil in bbl/day? thanks
Matty (UK) 21st June 2007	There is only one way in the short term that we can hope to not use up all the natural resources that is this: NUCLEAR POWER, wind power and wave power is very nice and clean but combustion is the only way with which energy is truly generated, ether that or spilting atoms, the other forms of energy don't come in terms of amount of energy produced, I know people don't like it but Nuclear is the only way, unless Scientists finally figure out the practicalities of Fusion which is basically the perfect version of fission, then we can smash things to bits with no side effects!
Alexander von Lignau (Haiti) 17th June 2007	With actual estimated reserves and actual world daily oil consumption, the numbers show about 46 years of supply left. This does not include increase in demand due to developing countries which will shorten significantly the time left. The developed countries planning development assistance for underdeveloped countries should take this strongly in consideration. The added cost for Technology transfer that will be necessary to curb the oil appetite of freshly developed and developing countries will be well worth it when the OIL availability count down parameter is taken in consideration. The world is developing today at an accelerated pace and turning every day hungrier for Energy under all forms. While more time may still be necessary for the needed technology leap to find the new energy fuel that will effectively replace the convenience we have grown to know with OIL. Energy source can vary with the end use. Nuclear energy, Fusion, “Green and renewable” energy (ie: hydro-Electric, bio-diesel, Ethanol, etc) , Solar, Geo-Thermal, Deep Ocean Water Energy Recovery, (DOWER), Wind and Tidal energy use, should be implemented where ever possible, especially in developing countries that have not yet grown to be totally dependant on the conveniences of petroleum “OIL”. The adaptation Process to new sources of Energy can only begin once and only once the said new source of Energy becomes available and starts to be in use. The Caribbean, South and Central America, Africa, China, rest of the Middle East should be today the prime zones for implementation of the alternate sources of energy, while High efficiency technology (Fuel Cells, Hybrid automotive products, etc), for using conventional hydrocarbon energy sources, should be valorized and given priority in the developed world. These maneuvers will give our kind the best options to successfully survive the unstoppable ENERGY revolution whose countdown has started and is inexorably progressing.
joyce (philippines) 13th June 2007	notice that the G8 is among the top 14 and so are some of the +5. The US consumes more than 1/4 of the energy consumption of the whole world!
Greg Lindsay (New York, USA) 21st May 2007	I am not going to deny that the United States has a problem with oil. However i took a look at the per capita section and the US ranked 17th!
william wehrle (saint peters, MO USA) 2nd May 2007	If there were half as many people on the planet we would consume half the amount of oil. It really is that simple!
Allan (Texas.) 29th April 2007	why can't we tax oil prices at a higher rate so it will limit peoples usage. Parts of Europe does it. they run at $7gal. and people are very conservitive, maby for selfish reasions but they are conservitive.
LZ 3rd April 2007	ALBERT LOBATO, it is possibly that the biggest consumers of gasoline have already been in the US for more than 100 years.
ds (maryland) 26th February 2007	what is a good sight to find information about where oil is located
tremain (illinois) 20th February 2007	what country is the largest supplier of oil to the united states?
M. Livingston (Brussels) 11th February 2007	For latest figures on energy usage figures in Europe, please browse to website www.energy.eu
Allison the Wise(no...really)! (louisiana-STALKER) 8th February 2007	y does every map of oil and gas use in the u.s from google have to have the prices(no offense Carlene person)
Allison the GREAT(really)! (louisiana) 8th February 2007	does every map of the oil and gas use in the united states u look up on google have to have just prices (no offense Carlene Joseph)
Ben Buxton (North Andover, Mass. USA) 9th January 2007	That'd be 80 million a day Maurie. The US is researching alternative energy sources, and I believe they could have released, and efficient, alternative energy source years ago. They probably do have the solution, but there's a lot of powerful people with a lot of money, who want to make more out there that don't want to let this thing loose. At some point we're going to have to put an end to it, this is a pivotal moment in history, and will cause much controversy and possibly wars if it hasn't already.
Brock Whitbread (Ontario, Canada) 7th January 2007	^^ Maurie's question is exactly the same as my own. I'm completing a project on oil consumption vs. production for my statistics course and I would really like a more clear definition of total consumption.
Carlene Joseph (The Bahamas) 14th October 2006	There needs to be gasoline prices shown on graphs for my coursework
Frank (China) 9th October 2006	Wanna know why China becomes the second largest oil consumer? Just visit http://www.zoomchina.com.cn
TOM BALISH (LEDYARD, CT 06339) 3rd October 2006	SUBJECT: ENDING AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO OIL--EMPOWERING ALL AMERICANS IN THE FIGHT Please be advised that a new book on subject is fresh off the press. The book title is: "HOW TO LIVE WELL WITHOUT OWNING A CAR" by Chris Balish. This book is a step-by-step plan to reduce the number of cars on the road and to empower all Americans in the fight to effectively reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and reduce global warming. Sincerely, Tom Balish Ledyard, Connecticut
Ramesh Kuruganti (Hyderabad,India) 5th July 2006	As United States of America has the largest consumption of Oil, the country should engage its own experts and overseas experts, to analyse and decide on the methods to reduce consumption.If proper measures are taken by USA to bring down its consumption of Oil per year, the Global Warming Process can be slowed down; and further it will lead to down ward trend in oil prices, and many countries which solely rely on Imports of Oil can save a lot and spend on measures to alleviate poverty.
Ade (Redditch, UK) 4th June 2006	Hmmm, seems that that all the countries backing the iran "uranium enrichment" debate currently heating up are all in the top ten oil consumers. And bearing in mind iran is the 4th biggest oil supplier in the world its obvious that there actually isnt any "uranium enrichment" happening. Seems the big players in this have decided to do something about the lack of oil around, but using urnium enrichment and nuclear weapons in iran as an excuse to invade (which i predict will happen soon) is an atrocity in the making. US government want to control all oil in the world becuase they use roughly 3 times the amount of the rest of teh world collectively. Please pay attention to this, because iran have just said if US makes wrong move then iran will curb oil exports. Then im sure it will be clear that oil is the driving force in this standoff. Just watch the US go from uranium enrichment to "we must not let iran refuse to xport oil to countries that need it, we must stop this from happening at ALL costs".
Seth K. (Foster RI) 21st May 2006	I was wondering if you knew that the World Poulation increases by 3 people a second. That is a total of 180 lives a minute; 10,800 an hour; 259,200 a day; 1,814,400 a week; and 94,348,800 people a year. It keeps happening and we keep consuming. For the future of humanity, and all life on earth, people need to die.
Steve (Arizona) 11th May 2006	If USA limited gasoline usage to that which is produced domestically what would that figure be per driver?
Daren Baker (Dallas, TX) 9th May 2006	Gameboys are created in Japan if you are meaning for the "we" to only mean the United States. Not to say that we use our research and development on anything more humanitarian. Secondly, we all know that technology is as driven by monetary productivity as much as anything else. R&D is determined more by ability to keep a business running, and not as much by its ability to assist this particular crisis. I know it sounds horrible, but it seems to be the way things are at the moment. I absolutely agree we have the technology to make the change. More importantly, we have altnerative means at our expense right now. Capitalism is fantastic, but it causes the market we live in and as a result we want it cheap, convenient, and right now. This will require more than simply a change in technology. This requires a lifestyle change by all if we hope to make it out alive.
James 1st May 2006	Thank you Giddeo. It is amazing how innefective our society is and not even thinking what would happen if we couldn't use this. Folks, we got to do something, or the US is going to have a lot of internatrional enemies. Think about this, about 3/4 or all the cars on the road in the U.S. have one person in it. Folks, we have the technology to change, we just arewn't using it. And also: - Why are Hummers, which get 10-15 miles to the gallon, are on the road? - And why are we improving technology on things we don't need (Ipods, Gameboys, etc.)?
stuart brown (us) 28th April 2006	how much oil does the us military consume? how much of the last 3 years increased us consumption has been from us military? how much is the us military spending to secure and obtain oil from the mideast? basilsthings@yahoo.com
Mike 17th March 2006	If any of you are concerned about the current crisis with Iran you should read this article. It blew me away. http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html
John Steinmetz 30th January 2006	For comparison, the European Union consumes apporximatley 14,590,000 barrels of oil a day, and would be number 2 behind the United States in this statistic.
Daniel Harwick 20th December 2005	Here's the URL of the source data from the CIA World Fact Book. It has all the nations, but the dates of the statistics vary widely, so it's pretty much useless. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html
Daniel Harwick 20th December 2005	There are no nations with names starting with T through Z on this list, yet the rankings are based on only the nations which appear. That's why the US isn't shown. Pardon my frankness, but this has to be the worst statistical coding I've ever seen.
Sarah (united states)age 11 1st December 2005	The united states uses more and more barrels of gas and oil every year my prediction is that in about 30 years the country will have to make new inventions to save oil and gas since the country uses so much the gas prices are going up and going up and then down. My science teacher says that maybe one day when we get older we can make a way to save oil i honestly think that we can find a way to save oil and gas in the world! Thank you!
Jay (Pennsylvania, USA) 9th November 2005	Oil consumption of the US on a daily basis is 19.65 barrels (CIA.gov). Their statistic out passes the consumption of over three times the consumption of the second highest consumer: Japan.
Mel-dizzle 3rd November 2005	where is the United States?
Allison 22nd October 2005	What are the oil consumption statistics for the U.S.A.? Does anybody have any access to those???
A. G. Nene 15th October 2005	It is very correct that US consumption is omitted. Since it is sum total of rest of world. The main culprit of "Global Warming" is US.
Maddi 8th October 2005	Do you have the top six countries total energy consumption for 2005 including India
el mondo (toronto) 22nd September 2005	A great book to read is a book written by Linda McQuaig, "It's the Crude, Dude" (War, Big Oil, and fight for the Planet). "An urgent wake-up call" - Noam Chomsky Answers many if not all questions about the intentions of U.S. towards Iraq and the rest of the world. And to answer your question Federico about why U.K's, U.S., Spain's, etc. consumption is not included...politics. How can you not have detailed info about "THE" Superpower of the world, U.S. and the side-kick U.K.??? And to the editors...how about the reason that the U.S. did not ratify the Kyoto Protocal because it would hurt the U.S. economy? You forgot to include that info. And what was EXXON's, the largest oil company in U.S. and the whole entire world, part in rejecting the protocal. EXXON believes that there is no significant evidence to prove that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming or climate change. "Intention" is what I question. 2/3 of oil consumption in U.S. is for transportation...gasoline, diesel, etc. AND THAT DOESN'T IMPACT GLOBAL WARMING? When U.S. consumes about 6 times more oil per capita than any other country in the world and w/only 5% of the population of the world? That's a lot of emmission control. Put 2 and 2 together and it all makes sense. Black Gold look for the answers everywhere...from documentaries on T.V. (the only reason why I would watch T.V.), to internet (all the info i've provided can be found online - just be careful where info is coming from and their "intention" - what is there position? who pays the bills? what are they're affiliations? so many questions...just don't be afraid to question.) to books "It's the Crude, Dude", by Linda McQuaig
Marcel (Switzerland) 14th September 2005	US consumption is about 21 million bbl/day, which is about 25% of world oil production. China surpassed Japan as No 2 oil consumer in 2003. Please keep in mind that hydrogen is not an energy source, it's merely a way to store energy and has to be produced using electricity. Besides, it's extremely difficult to store as it evaporates out of storage tanks at about 2-3% per day! The world should invest heavily in renewable energy sources such as wind (off-shore wind farms), hydroelectric power, photo voltaics and geothermal energy (hot-dry-rock). Most importantly, efficiency should be increased. We should improve the insulation of buildings, use more fuel efficient cars or travel by train, etc.
Moi 3rd September 2005	The US might be ahead now, but that doesn't guarantee that it will be ahead in the future. True, graphs and modern day computers have predicted that by 2025, the US will be WAY AHEAD. Then why is the manufacturing economy moving to China? Also, there are WAY MORE people in China then there are in the US. If just half of the population begins to use cars... well, you can imagine the oil consumption then...
21st August 2005	Why is US consumption left out?
Giddeo (Great Britain) 18th July 2005	It looks as though we are eating our way through the Earth's oil at a phoenominal rate so I have 2 questions: 1. What methods, SERIOUS methods are being taken to make sure that we can safely move away from our oil dependency in the near future (alternative energy resources etc) and if they aren't working towards moving away from oil as the worlds major resource then 2. Why are they not researching an alternative fuel resource, surely it is in there best interest to maintain a stable fuel resource?
Daniel 25th June 2005	What is the scare of Peak Oil over?
SolarEagle 21st June 2005	Your growth statistics are non-sequitur, that much oil does not exist....If we don't convert to hydrogen, things will come to a stop...The demand for oil in China, and other developing countries, is now starting to outpace the ability to increase production...Since there is a finite supply of oil, and we have wells that are starting play out, the ability to increase production is also finite..The amount of money that can be used to increase production of oil is relevent to the amount of money that can be used to convert to hydrogen, in other words if you are using all of your resources to increase production of a finite source of energy, sooner or later someone will realize this is a waste of money, that once the oil runs out, this investment is lost, and the more you ramp-up production, the faster this will occur....better to spend the money on developing an infinite source of energy, in hydrogen....
andrew 21st June 2005	What is the US consumption?
Ralf Crow 27th May 2005	Does the Kyoto protocol or other restrictions on oil consumption allow for the differences in each nation's purpose and the economic benefit of oil usage. For example is a manufacturing economy (where oil is mainly used by factories to produce goods) given different consideraton compared to a service economy (eg if oil is mainly used in driving and leisures)? Like many developing nations, moving from agricultural to manufaturing, the need for oil reflects the need to move out of poverty. While many of the well-developed countries, who have already moved out of manufacturing to service based, arguably is less affected in real terms for reducing oil consumption (eg drive less and develop alternative energy)? I think if US or Japan (among highest GDP per capita in the world) could not afford the price of alternative energy, how could India?
kou vang 25th May 2005	hi. i am kou vang, i go new tech high school i wont to know that how is going on with the oil
Neal Vanderstelt 16th May 2005	The reason we are so dependent on oil is because alternative energy is so expensive to develop. The average person cannot afford alternative energy so the availble energy (i.e. oil) goes up in price as demand increases (i.e. expanding economies).
katie 20th April 2005	Why is the United States not on this chart? I mean, clearly it's first in oil consumption- but why doesn't the chart show it? The graph at first appears to be comprehensive ("top 50"), but then the US doesn't appear.
Michael 23rd March 2005	China is not catching up to the US in oil consumption. If Chinese oil consumption continues to grow at current rates - which it almost certainly will not - by 2020 it will be consuming as much as the United States does CURRENTLY in 2005 -- not as much as the United States will be consuming at that point.
DG 3rd March 2005	To answer why the U.S. is in the Middle East, consider that we USE about 7 billion barrels per year (from data, above), and we have, in the ground 22 billion barrels (http://www.capitals.com/rankorder/2178rank.html). You do the math. Then consider that you can't grow food, fertilize crops, make plastics, not to mention drive or fly without it.
FERNGARIBY 23rd February 2005	If China is catching up with the USA in oil consumption, what about pollution in China? Strict emission standards should be part of China's overall development, otherwise we will all be affected somehow.
josephplaney@cboss.com 23rd February 2005	Do you have a 2005 oil consumption graph? I heard that consumption in China is approaching that of the USA.
Oregon, H.A. 2nd February 2005	Are we just over in the Middle-East because of oil?? i have a debate about the U.S. oil consumption, and I just don't know why we are so depended on such a nonrenewable resource. I am only in 9th grade though, so i will soon hope to figure out soon.
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