IEA Predicts Tsunami in Global Oil Demand by 2030

摘要

Despite realization of the crying teed to replace polluting lydrocarbons by cleaner fuels, it appears that oil dependency will only increase to gargantuan proportions in the immediate future. Roughly 42% of that increase in demand will come from China and India. The International Energy Agency's 2012 World Energy Outlook (WEO) projects that by 2030 global oil demand will hit 116 million barrels per day (mb/d) compared to 32 mb/d in 2006. The reason cited is an expected spike in the number of vehicles on the road globally - anticipated to jump from today's 900 million to 2.16 billion by 2030.