Then there's China, which has climbed to the world's number two spot in oil consumption.
To tackle climate and oil, what we really need to do is reduce oil consumption.
But while U.S. usage has remained flat, China's oil consumption rises about 5% per year.
So the Unger Report releases its eight-point plan for cutting back on oil consumption this summer.
Not so, if the goal is to produce enough to significantly cut U.S. oil consumption.
Oil consumption has fallen in the past two years, even as GDP has risen.
Last year, China accounted for no less than one-third of the increase in world oil consumption.
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Unless we scrap guzzlers at a faster rate, we will never reduce our oil consumption.
There is a good argument for this: global oil consumption typically falls in the second quarter.
The site says 7.2 percent of the national daily oil consumption is attributed to heavy-duty truck idling.
The recovery in the American economy, painfully slow though it is, should gradually increase US oil consumption.
As a result, our estimate of 1.5 mm bpd in oil consumption savings seems reasonable in context.
Over the last 30 years, oil consumption has risen from 2.7 billion tons to 3.8 billion tons.
And as NPR's Martin Kaste reports, the flex-fuel program has backfired and is actually increasing oil consumption.
According to most industry expectations, by 2025 global oil consumption will increase by more than 50 percent.
It will also slash U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels, dramatically reducing our reliance on foreign suppliers.
And it means this country will reduce our oil consumption by more than 2 million barrels a day.
Last year, I asked you to pass legislation to reduce oil consumption over the next decade, and you responded.
But he says this type of freight delivery accounts for only about one percent of all U.S. oil consumption.
Make it from very light but strong materials, improve its tires and aerodynamics, and you'll halve oil consumption again.
Plus, U.S. oil consumption is declining and is expected to decline for decades.
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Impressive, but that's barely 10% of total U.S. oil consumption over that period.
The number is puny in terms of global oil consumption, enough to supply world demand for approximately seven minutes.
Fisheries account for 1.2% of global oil consumption and emit more than 130m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Meanwhile, oil consumption stands to increase with the rapid demand growth from the developing world, driving prices up a lot.
And we do not know how much Western European oil consumption will fall, although it seems likely that it will.
His prediction is surprising, given that injections into the reserve are just 60, 000 barrels a day--0.3% of U.S. oil consumption.
When oil prices are rising steadily, investors are betting on growth, like the U.S. returning to pre-crisis oil consumption levels.
Over the past 20 years, global oil consumption has increased by 30%, but proven reserves have increased at twice that rate.
The second reason why significant oil consumption will continue long-term is that viable and economically-sensible alternatives have yet to emerge.
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