A Surprising Look at Oil Consumption
First, who’s oil consumption is increasing year after year, or who’s economy is booming? All charts below are consumption as total liquids in thousand barrels per day. Some charts are through 2014 while others are through 2013. Whatever the last year is on the yearly axis is the last year for that data.
Important: All charts are consumption, not production.
No doubt the Middle East is booming. The reason, most of them are oil producers and oil, for most of this chart anyway, the price of oil was increasing. They had lots of income, their consumption was increasing every year as was their economies.
Saudi Arabia, by far the Middle East’s largest consumer, has increased consumption every year since 1995.
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