Next time you get into your car and drive to the supermarket, think about how much energy you consume on an annual basis. It is widely assumed that Westerners are some of the world’s worst energy pigs. While Americans make up just 5 percent of the global population, they use 20 percent of its energy, eat 15 percent of its meat, and produce 40 percent of the earth’s garbage.
Europeans and people in the Middle East, it turns out, aren’t winning any awards for energy conservation, either.
Oilprice.com set out to discover which countries use the most energy and why.
While some of the guilty parties are obvious, others may surprise you.
A note about the figures: we used kilograms of oil equivalent (koe) per capita, which refers to the amount of energy that can be extracted from one kilogram of crude oil. ‘Koe per capita’ can be used to compare energy from different sources, including fossil fuels and renewables, and does here. The numbers represent the most recent data available from the World Bank.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 10/02/2014.
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