Oil+Consumption

media type="youtube" key="DMQd5nGEkr4" width="425" height="350"How much oil does the world consume? The United States consumes an average of 20.6 million barrels of oil a day. Forty percent of that -- 9.1 million barrels -- is used to power motor vehicles. So how do these numbers measure up globally? The most recent figures show that China, with a population more than four times that of the United States, consumes nearly seven million barrels a day. However, China's thirst for oil is growing quickly, with India coming up fast behind. Russia uses nearly three million barrels of oil a day and Canada just over two million. Americans use more oil for their motor vehicles than the total combined amounts used by Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom and France. The U.S. represents about five percent of the human population, but it consumes a quarter of the world's oil. []

Currently, the United States consumes 19.6 million barrels per day, of oil, which is more than 25% of the world's total.. As a result, the U.S produces one fourth of the world's carbon emissions. Despite predictions that the U.S. will exhaust it's supply of oil in as little as forty years, the demand is on the increase, and is predicted to continue increasing, because of the ever increasing population. Increase in resource consumption is caused by three factors: population growth, new uses found for a resource, and increase in demand for a resource to increase living standards. The rate of consumption for oil is increasing at a rate of about 2% yearly. [] We put oil in our engines to serve several purposes. First, obviously, oil acts as a lubricant. If your engine is operating correctly, there is almost no metal to metal contact - everything is riding on a thin film of oil. However, oil has several other important jobs to do. Oil circulates throughout your engine, and cools parts that cannot get near a water jacket. For example, it's becoming common in sport bikes to spray oil on the underside of the piston to cool it. There are no water jackets at all in your transmission. Motorcycle transmissions are oil cooled. __ http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/Oils1.html __

media type="youtube" key="7nsBsxSxatc" height="315" width="560" This shows the world's consumption of oil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nsBsxSxatcoll (source for world consumption of oil video) If we use oil for our resource for energy then that will make 20% more jobs for U.S citizens. Also if we increase domestic taxes then we could reduce the barrels down 700,000 a day (Link is below) http://energytomorrow.org/search/videos/YTo0OntzOjg6ImtleXdvcmRzIjtzOjEwOiJvaWwgZW5lcmd5IjtzOjExOiJzZWFyY2hfbW9kZSI7czozOiJhbGwiO3M6MTE6InJlc3VsdF9wYWdlIjtzOjExOiJzZWFyY2gvYmxvZyI7czoxMDoiY29sbGVjdGlvbiI7YTo5OntpOjA7czoxOiIxIjtpOjE7czoxOiI0IjtpOjI7czoxOiIzIjtpOjM7czoxOiI1IjtpOjQ7czoxOiI2IjtpOjU7czoxOiI3IjtpOjY7czoxOiIyIjtpOjc7czoxOiI4IjtpOjg7czoxOiI5Ijt9fQ