#5 Germany 2,677,000 barrels per day
#4 Russia 2,800,000 barrels per day
By the way, maybe consumption is pushed upwards due to a large refinery sector which while consuming lots of crude also exports lots of diesel and gasoline?
#7 Canada 2,193,000 barrels per day
#10 France 2,060,000 barrels per day
If you take for every country its oil consumption per capita, per GDP, per area (say, in square metres) and add some coefficient connected with climatic zone (say a 10.0 for the countries with the most favourable weather which will include the bulk of Central/Western Europe and put a 1.0 for the country with the worst climate - Russia and put the rest of world in between) ...er... and why do i want to multiply all this, not that i know anything about non-linear stuff... ah well, then you will get figures which may show another picture (very simplistic but anyway) of the worst natural resource wasters in the world
I am even not sure that the US will be the number one offenders
So, first use the aggregate figures to find which political agents are associated with the biggest impacts, and then use the normalised figures to see which of those are inefficient. Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
