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China overtakes US as top energy consumer
BP research says China has overtaken US as top energy consumer after rapid growth in 2010
A new report says that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest consumer of energy.
Oil company BP said Wednesday that China moved to the top in 2010 with 20.3 percent of global demand, ahead of the United States at 19 percent.
The report says China’s consumption rose by 11.2 percent last year compared with 3.7 percent in the United States. China’s surge led a 5.6 percent increase in global energy demand, the biggest one-year jump since 1973.
China was by far the world’s largest consumer of coal, taking 48 percent. The United States remained the largest consumer of oil with 21 percent of global demand, double China’s consumption.
One Comment on "China overtakes US as top energy consumer"
DMyers on Thu, 9th Jun 2011 7:47 am
China’s population is about 1.3B. U.S. population is about .31B. Looking at this in terms of energy usage/population, Richard C. Duncan’s measure of living standards, another important aspect of the situation emerges. Duncan called this e. e=Energy/Population.
For China to approach the standard of living of the U.S., the following relationship would hold true.
Energy US/.31 = Energy CH/1.3
Setting E US at 1, then E CH would have to be about 4.2. China would require about four times as much energy as is used by the US to achieve the current US standard of living (e). Hate to say it, but they just might take one of those US size chunks of energy consumption from none other than US.