"In 2009, China accounted for nearly a fifth of global primary energy use- a share similar to that of the United States, which has just one quarter of China's population."
In the beginning, this quote didn't come as much of a surprise to me, until I read the last third of it... "Oh, a similar primary energy share, that's expected", until you read that the United States population only makes up one quarter of China's. I knew that Americans were very wasteful when it came to energy and non-renewable resources, but this fact was extremely shocking. What I'm wondering is what Americans are using all of their energy on. I would be interested in seeing advances in China's energy versus that of America's, and differences in energy usage.
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