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Only problem I have with that graph is that you could easily take the wrong impression that graph that Americans somehow lead dramatically more wasteful lives than people everywhere else. If you look at oil usage per capita instead of per country though, you get a pretty different picture:
http://www.nationmaster.com/grap…
Turns out America is actually #23 out of all countries, and not really that different from Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, or Australia.
And Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Saudi Arabia are all much worse than the U.S. We're wasteful obviously, and something needs to change, but I think it helps to understand that the huge chunk of world usage in the first graph is really due to the fact that we're the largest wealthy industrialized country. Other rich countries are just as bad, they just happen to have less people.