A Picture is Worth... Gasoline Consumption Per Day

by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 07.11.07
According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005, the U.S. uses more petrol than the next twenty leading consumer nations combined. The US pays a significantly lower price for its petrol at the pump than
most. (TreeHugger; July 11)

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Via ::The Economist.

Update: Many thanks to commenter Fusoko for finding the per capita data on world gasoline consumption

(original source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005). We've also changed the title from "oil" to "gasoline" since the original uses "petrol".

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DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Thousand barrels daily, as of end of 2004

Notes: Others have less than 0.05 Per capita figures expressed per 10,000 population.