Een aantal energiefeiten op een rijtje
1 oktober 2005. Bijdrage geleverd door Siem Vaessen.
Een kort, doch helder overzicht van een aantal energiefeiten:
- The U.S. burns 10 billion gallons of gasoline every 25 days, which accounts for 25% of world oil use.
- That’s 23 million barrels a day more than China, Japan, Russia, Germany and Canada combined.
- We burn 23 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the U.S., going
to 31 trillion cubic feet per year by 2025, while we are producing
1%-2% LESS each year. - The world has 6.3 billion people and the population is growing at
a 1.3% rate, BUT the world has 775 million vehicles and every year that
number grows by 6%. - In the U.S. we have 745 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants
- China has THREE vehicles per 1,000 people, and India has one vehicle per 1,000 inhabitants.
- The world creates 112,190 new vehicles each DAY, and China adds
2.5 million cars per year that burn an average of 5.96 barrels of oil
per year. - If China gets to the U.S. rate of car ownership, they will have 1.1 billion cars.
- The population of India will surpass China by 2030.
- When China gets to five cars per 1,000 people, they will have to DOUBLE the oil they have to import to 10 million barrels a day
