For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
1. Saudi Arabia 0.087
2. Canada 0.069
3. United States 0.068
4. Netherlands 0.064
5. South Korea 0.049
6. Taiwan 0.049
7. Australia 0.044
8. Japan 0.039
9. Spain 0.035
10. France 0.03
11. Italy 0.029
12. Germany 0.029
13. United Kingdom 0.028
14. Iran 0.023
15. Russia 0.019
16. Mexico 0.019
17. Brazil 0.012
18. China 0.006
19. Indonesia 0.005
20. India 0.002
This is the same group of countries but this time ranked by their per capita daily consumption (barrels of oil per person per day).
I'd always pictured the Dutch as a nation of eco-warriors pedalling about everywhere on their bikes and I was surprised to see us V8-loving aussies only in at no. 7.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
What surprised me about those numbers (per capita that is) is Canada being more of an energy hog than the U.S. This, considering Canadian motorists pay more per fuel than U.S citizens. I found that interesting.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
So socialist governments praising their government funded energy efficiency programs are actually the biggest energy wasters. Guess we have to relearn the history of Russia all over. _________________ People first, then things, then dollars.
There will be enslavement & cannibalism.
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that's not a good thing, is it? _________________ Skeptical scrutiny in both Science and Religion is the means by which deep thoughts are winnowed from deep nonsense-Carl Sagan
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
stu wrote:
9. Brazil- 2,192,000
I thought Brazil, with all the sugar cane ethanol, was virtually oil-free. I know they don't use it for heating. Does anyone have some insight? Thanks!
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
VMarcHart wrote:
stu wrote:
9. Brazil- 2,192,000
I thought Brazil, with all the sugar cane ethanol, was virtually oil-free. I know they don't use it for heating. Does anyone have some insight? Thanks!
I don’t know how these numbers where calculated but when you here the higher estimates of global oil production (About 86 mil give or take) there actually talking about all liquid fuels not just crude oil. Which means bio fuel is counted. This may be how the figures are calculated here as well.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
Interesting. Japan is the world's third largest oil consumer. It imports about 99% of it's oil and uses about 5 mbpd. And yet the US uses more oil imports than Japan- 60% oil imported which equals about 12 mbpd of imports consumed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
It's amazing the first time you think about it. USA consumes three times more than China yet China has about 3 times the population of the USA. _________________ "The age of excess is over. The age of entropy has begun"
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
thylacine wrote:
I'd always pictured the Dutch as a nation of eco-warriors pedalling about everywhere on their bikes and I was surprised to see us V8-loving aussies only in at no. 7.
This picture is a bit confusing. We (the Dutch) have the largest refinery in Europe. We export petrochemical materials, throughout the World. We sell gasoline to the US and diesel to Europe.
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
Gerben wrote:
thylacine wrote:
I'd always pictured the Dutch as a nation of eco-warriors pedalling about everywhere on their bikes and I was surprised to see us V8-loving aussies only in at no. 7.
This picture is a bit confusing. We (the Dutch) have the largest refinery in Europe. We export petrochemical materials, throughout the World. We sell gasoline to the US and diesel to Europe.
Despite what you say about the refinery I am still shocked by the Dutch usage as Australia has many resource exports which I would have thought would also be oil intensive. Added to that we travel much longer distances in much bigger cars. Can this really be right?
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
VMarcHart wrote:
stu wrote:
9. Brazil- 2,192,000
I thought Brazil, with all the sugar cane ethanol, was virtually oil-free. I know they don't use it for heating. Does anyone have some insight? Thanks!
Popular misconception but not true in the least. Brazil is a rapidly developing country and all that modern living needs oil to sustain it. Don't forget that oil has a million other uses besides just gasoline. Petrochemicals and fertilizers are just two that spring to mind (and Brazil has a huge ag economy with enormous fertilizer inputs).
There is no such thing as an oil free country (especially one that has industries and rapid growth like Brazil). Also thank goodness for all of the sugar cane ethanol or Brazil's oil usage would be much higher and putting more upward pressure on oil prices. _________________ Simon's Law: Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.--Anne Frank
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Top 20 Oil Consuming Countries in the World (2007).
turner wrote:
Gerben wrote:
thylacine wrote:
I'd always pictured the Dutch as a nation of eco-warriors pedalling about everywhere on their bikes and I was surprised to see us V8-loving aussies only in at no. 7.
This picture is a bit confusing. We (the Dutch) have the largest refinery in Europe. We export petrochemical materials, throughout the World. We sell gasoline to the US and diesel to Europe.
Despite what you say about the refinery I am still shocked by the Dutch usage as Australia has many resource exports which I would have thought would also be oil intensive. Added to that we travel much longer distances in much bigger cars. Can this really be right?
It's right... Rotterdam has the largest harbour of Europe and is huge when it comes to oil. The petrochemical industry uses up a lot of oil. And then there's all the transportation, as small as the Netherlands is it still has one one of the largest harbours in the world as well as one of the largest airports.
Also, the Netherlands rely heavily on oil and gas, much more so than the EU avg.
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