Oil is especially useful due to its portability (I don't expect coal - burning cars to come on the market any time soon), so I wouldn't expect
the drop in oil consumption to be made up for with other lesser fossil fuels.
Only if there is a serious attempt, with all countries of the world taking part to fight climate change, will there be a big enough
drop in oil consumption to really affect price.
Not exact matches
Even a 5 percent
drop in demand for fuel
in those countries would knock about 325,000 bpd from global crude
oil consumption.
But the effects can still be significant: for a 300,000 barrel - per - day refinery that burns fuel
oil for internal
consumption, for example, a 50 percent
drop in oil prices can translate into an annual cost benefit of $ 200 million.
This
drop in expected
oil consumption has pushed crude prices to multi-month lows.
these wonderful whales to insanity, disorientation, and mass death
in order to find every
drop of
oil to allow us to continue our
oil consumption and keep prices low, all the while putting the carbon into the atmosphere?
ie as consumers are able to
drop the cost of energy from their budgets through domestic solar and other, living standards will increase even as global
oil prices steadily rise, and grid energy will increase
in cost due to altered
consumption patterns.
The gift that is American energy is seen
in some key numbers: domestic crude
oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level
in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports of energy as a share of energy
consumption falling to their lowest level
in nearly 30 years during the first six months of this year; gasoline prices
dropping to an average of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..
For now you can see a
drop in the
oil -
consumption of the OECD, which means a
drop in the CO2 - emmission.