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Like the swarm of Locus consuming everything in it's path... China's 1.5+ BILLION inhabitants are gobbling up Natural Resources at Alarming Rates.
Did you know... EVERY Quarter, China builds City/buildings the equivalent, to the size of Houston, TX... that's every 90 days!
China’s consumption of oil reached a record high and rose an incredible 17 percent in the first quarter of 2008 alone, according to the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association. A Chinese government think tank has estimated that China’s oil consumption will increase by 62 percent over the next decade! The actual figure may be double that. Yet, if Chinese consumption grows by just 62 percent China would be using at least 12 million barrels of oil a day by 2020 compared to the 20 million barrels currently consumed each day by the United States.
As China continues to industrialize they are preparing for the demands of an increasingly consumer-driven (and automobile-driven) nation. In fact, they are in the process of building 42,000 miles of new interstate highways over the next 20 years. To put that in perspective, the entire United States has about 86,000 miles of interstate at the present time. India has plans to construct another 25,000 miles of expressways themselves. Presumably, cars fueled by gasoline are going to drive up and down all those thousands of miles of new highways.
That’s a pretty good assumption since Chinese car sales rose nearly 18 percent during the first quarter of 20008 alone! The China Association of Auto Manufacturers reported sales of 2.46 million cars during the first four months of this year. China is the second largest car market in the world, and expects to put 10 million new cars on the road in 2008.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=60670
Did you know... EVERY Quarter, China builds City/buildings the equivalent, to the size of Houston, TX... that's every 90 days!
China’s consumption of oil reached a record high and rose an incredible 17 percent in the first quarter of 2008 alone, according to the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association. A Chinese government think tank has estimated that China’s oil consumption will increase by 62 percent over the next decade! The actual figure may be double that. Yet, if Chinese consumption grows by just 62 percent China would be using at least 12 million barrels of oil a day by 2020 compared to the 20 million barrels currently consumed each day by the United States.
As China continues to industrialize they are preparing for the demands of an increasingly consumer-driven (and automobile-driven) nation. In fact, they are in the process of building 42,000 miles of new interstate highways over the next 20 years. To put that in perspective, the entire United States has about 86,000 miles of interstate at the present time. India has plans to construct another 25,000 miles of expressways themselves. Presumably, cars fueled by gasoline are going to drive up and down all those thousands of miles of new highways.
That’s a pretty good assumption since Chinese car sales rose nearly 18 percent during the first quarter of 20008 alone! The China Association of Auto Manufacturers reported sales of 2.46 million cars during the first four months of this year. China is the second largest car market in the world, and expects to put 10 million new cars on the road in 2008.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=60670
