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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 9 hours ago

Crazy that a country with 4x less people can manage to use more oil.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

And it's not from industry, it's just people driving around.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Especially given China has 90m more cars than the US, produces 2.3x more electricity than the US (10.5TWh vs 4.5TWH) and consumes 3x more oil than India, the most populated country.

Its really hard to report on this given how complex it is - For example: "The gap in consumption between the US and China is really down to China's consumption of coal for primary power generation (60%) vs the US (9%) where coal isn't included in the barrel/day totals". Easy to say, but a gross oversimplification of the situation. There's also serious pressure in the US not to report on the energy sector because of Trump - which is why most people don't know more than 50% of US power is now supplied by solar/nuclear/wind/hydro ~~despite the orange bastard's best efforts...~~

Consumer consumption per capita is also a useful but in this case somewhat misleading statistic - I really wish I could cite sources on industrial vs consumer power consumption to explain because it's really very interesting, but those data sets were killed by Elon when he murdered the EIA (along with the rest of the US stastical core).

(edit: wtf is with the formatting here, it keeps sticking random HTML tags into this comment. My apologies if this looks weird)

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

But China is also building more renewable farms and nuclear than the rest of the world combined, while the US is going the opposite direction.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm not sure how that's relevant to what I said here, but yes they are indeed doing that!

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