105 million barrels of oil/day globally, which is weirdly missing from that article. China consumes 16.189 mil b/d, 3x more than the 3rd place consumer India (5.271 mil b/d)
As feels all too normal these days, US consumption is difficult to know - Trump/DOGE have utterly destroyed the agency responsible for calculating it after they reported a reduction in consumption. Most estimates put it at around 19 mil b/d, based on the increase in US EVs (7%) and the sharp reduction in driving due to the high price of oil as a result of the iran war.
Especially given China has 90m more cars than the US, produces 2.3x more electricity than the US (10.5TWh vs 4.5TWH) and consumes 3x more oil than India, the most populated country.
Its really hard to report on this given how complex it is - For example: “The gap in consumption between the US and China is really down to China’s consumption of coal for primary power generation (60%) vs the US (9%) where coal isn’t included in the barrel/day totals”. Easy to say, but a gross oversimplification of the situation. There’s also serious pressure in the US not to report on the energy sector because of Trump - which is why most people don’t know more than 50% of US power is now supplied by solar/nuclear/wind/hydro despite the orange bastard’s best efforts…
Consumer consumption per capita is also a useful but in this case somewhat misleading statistic - I really wish I could cite sources on industrial vs consumer power consumption to explain because it’s really very interesting, but those data sets were killed by Elon when he murdered the EIA (along with the rest of the US stastical core).
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105 million barrels of oil/day globally, which is weirdly missing from that article. China consumes 16.189 mil b/d, 3x more than the 3rd place consumer India (5.271 mil b/d)
As feels all too normal these days, US consumption is difficult to know - Trump/DOGE have utterly destroyed the agency responsible for calculating it after they reported a reduction in consumption. Most estimates put it at around 19 mil b/d, based on the increase in US EVs (7%) and the sharp reduction in driving due to the high price of oil as a result of the iran war.
Crazy that a country with 4x less people can manage to use more oil.
Especially given China has 90m more cars than the US, produces 2.3x more electricity than the US (10.5TWh vs 4.5TWH) and consumes 3x more oil than India, the most populated country.
Its really hard to report on this given how complex it is - For example: “The gap in consumption between the US and China is really down to China’s consumption of coal for primary power generation (60%) vs the US (9%) where coal isn’t included in the barrel/day totals”. Easy to say, but a gross oversimplification of the situation. There’s also serious pressure in the US not to report on the energy sector because of Trump - which is why most people don’t know more than 50% of US power is now supplied by solar/nuclear/wind/hydro
despite the orange bastard’s best efforts…Consumer consumption per capita is also a useful but in this case somewhat misleading statistic - I really wish I could cite sources on industrial vs consumer power consumption to explain because it’s really very interesting, but those data sets were killed by Elon when he murdered the EIA (along with the rest of the US stastical core).
(edit: wtf is with the formatting here, it keeps sticking random HTML tags into this comment. My apologies if this looks weird)
But China is also building more renewable farms and nuclear than the rest of the world combined, while the US is going the opposite direction.
I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said here, but yes they are indeed doing that!
And it’s not from industry, it’s just people driving around.