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Originally Posted by GatorB
That's 3.7 million barrels A DAY. That's 1.35 BILLION extra per year. Hell ANWAR only has 10.4 billion MAX.
By the way only us, China and Japan use more than that 3.7 million barrel difference. Germany is #4 and only uses a TOTAL of 2.65 million barrels a day.
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Don't really know what your point is... I put those stats there to show that there hasn't been a huge sudden increase in demand that would justify the sudden "problem"... Consumption has grown consistently at around 200k barrels a day for 18+ years... Monkey brained simple planning by the oil companies "should" have taken all the data into account so that they would have capacity to handle that consistent increase. Since they seem to not have planned for it, one has to ask why they haven't. I presented information as to why they haven't.