"Were China and India to increase their rates of car ownership to the point where per-capita oil consumption reached just half of American levels, the two countries would burn through a hundred million additional barrels a day. (Currently, total global use is eighty six million barrels a day.) Were they to match U.S. consumption levels, they would require an extra two hundred million barrels a day."
-Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11/05/07
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