May interest some. I looked up the history of 9 large oil consumer countries over a 10 year period. I typed out 1998 and 2008 figures plus the percentage of increase or decrease. Some countries increased until 2004 then declined but still came out with increase at 2008; in other words… To see a more complete history go to tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index. … tion
Pretty interesting stuff, IMO
Country 1998 2008 % in the millions of barrels of oil per day.
China 4.105 7.953 +93%
India 1.844 2.932 +59%
Canada 1.949 2.315 +18%
Russia 2.488 2.907 +17%
USA 18.917 19.418 +3%
France 2.04 1.956 -4%
UK 1.792 1.697 -5%
Germany 2.922 2.555 -12%
Japan 5.515 4.743 -13%