BP oil spill
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Yeah actually I agree with the overall point you're making. It's the overlying structural and geographic issues that are behind a lot of these differences.
Canada for instance, is cold like you said, but it's also much more spread out than most countries, so you gotta think they spend a lot more on transport costs in terms of oil. But that's also true of the U.S., which is much less densely populated than most of Europe, also we don't have the nice public transport you see in many European countries.
All I was saying is that looking at that original chart you might get the idea that the U.S. alone is bleeding the world's oil dry when that's far from the case. They should have put Europe in there which would have been a close second to the U.S. and ahead of China. It's hard to get exact stats b/c everyone uses different measurements, but going off the government's official numbers here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publ…
U.S. = 19.5 million barrels of oil/ day
EU = 14.3 million barrels/ dayOf course, that's only EU, if you add in the rest of Europe (Norway, Switzerland, etc), there's about another 2 million/ day. So I guess no matter how you slice it Europe is better and more efficient than U.S. and Canada - but not by such a massive amount.
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* takes down drgss's poster "die america die"georgesIII - Don't get me wrong, the situation is still pretty bad. You go out to American suburbs, and until recently anyway, everyone at least had two cars, one of which was probably an SUV.ukit
- least had two cars, one of which was probably an SUV.ukit
- points taken,