What Countries Consume the Most Oil?
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Oil is perhaps the most critical source of energy worldwide. Overall consumption is on the rise as more and more of the world industrialize and start utilizing modern machines. The United States is the largest consumer of oil and consumes over 25% of the world's oil! Here are the top 25 oil consuming nations as provided by the CIA World Factbook (2001 estimates); the values represent the number of barrels consumed per day.
| country | barrels/day | |
| United States | 19,650,000 |  |
| Japan | 5,290,000 | |
| China | 4,975,000 | |
| Germany | 2,813,000 | |
| Russia | 2,595,000 | |
| Brazil | 2,199,000 | |
| South Korea | 2,140,000 | |
| India | 2,130,000 | |
| France | 2,026,000 | |
| Italy | 1,866,000 | |
| United Kingdom | 1,710,000 | |
| Canada | 1,703,000 | |
| Mexico | 1,507,000 | |
| Spain | 1,497,000 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,452,000 | |
| Iran | 1,277,000 | |
| Indonesia | 1,045,000 | |
| Taiwan | 988,000 | |
| Netherlands | 895,300 | |
| Australia | 796,500 | |
| Thailand | 785,000 | |
| Singapore | 700,000 | |
| Turkey | 619,500 | |
| Belgium | 595,100 | |
| Egypt | 562,000 | |
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Where does the United States get its oil from?
- anon22233
The fact that the US has lousy public transit systems and that it is not very safe to ride your bike in most US cities might have something to do with these ridiculous statistics! I live in the United States and would give up my car in a second if my city had anything resembling good public transportation or if I could ride my bike without getting killed. It's really sad that even though gas is expensive, traffic is horrible, our cars are polluting... we're still in them!
- lemmings
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Source: CIA World Factbook 2002
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