Comments on: May 2, 2008: Walking Through the Tribeca Film Festival https://sheepguardingllama.com/2008/05/may-2-2008-walking-through-the-tribeca-film-festival/ Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online Mon, 05 May 2008 02:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Scott Alan Miller https://sheepguardingllama.com/2008/05/may-2-2008-walking-through-the-tribeca-film-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-20438 Mon, 05 May 2008 02:01:27 +0000 http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/?p=2361#comment-20438 Population certainly plays a “leveling” affect keeping small industries from significantly affecting the national numbers, like Luxembourg whose population is so small that any little company or national industry would skew the numbers significantly. Although Canada is quite large and is not a small countries having those affects.

The US needs to be included in any list of oil producing nations, though, so as not to exclude it from the top of the list for those reasons. The US is consistently one of the world’s three largest oil producers. So that exempts Canada no more than the US. I believe that our per-capita oil production is much larger than that of Canada (but obviously not larger than Saudi Arabia, for example.)

I would really like to see a breakdown of petroleum consumption by industry (manufacturing, shipping, consumer, power production, military, etc.) Most of the nations with low numbers do it partially because they never need to ship products long distance (without leaving their own borders and purchasing fuel elsewhere) or don’t rely heavily on plastics manufacturing and send that out to poorer nations.

What we really need to see is consumer fuel consumption numbers per capita per country to really get a feel for how real people are using fuel.

]]> By: K-Dogg https://sheepguardingllama.com/2008/05/may-2-2008-walking-through-the-tribeca-film-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-20423 Sat, 03 May 2008 23:39:59 +0000 http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/?p=2361#comment-20423 The US is 15th, but ahead of it are nations that all a fraction of the US population. The next comparable nation in terms of population is Japan, at 32, followed by Brazil at 99. It’s important to consider the fact that the US is built upon the automobile, whereas the nations of the European Union generally rely more on rail. I’d also imagine that the nations at the top of the list either have a really small population so as to produce a very disproportionate ratio, or are oil producing nations (Canada, Saudi Arabia, UAE). Also significant is how many things are made from petroleum that we don’t realize – notably plastics, and things we take for granted, such as power production. So the small nations such as the Virgin Islands might have an oil or a co-generation plant producing excessive energy to accommodate a small population with a large tourist influx.

It is an interesting study.

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