Addiction, American Style: The Overconsumption of Oil, By Louyis Dixon

The reason is that the U.S. economy, like the economies of every other first-world country, is fueled by an outrageous appetite for crude oil. The population of the United States alone consumes more than three-fourths of the world’s oil production on a daily basis. This is a terrifying number if you compare it to the top ten oil consumers of the world. America is the number one consumer, using over fifteen million barrels a day more than the second seated consumer China, who uses only 6,534,000 barrels a day.