In China, 86% of gasoline consumption is burned to power automobiles

Shanghai. September 13 (Gasgoo.com) – Automobiles burn one third of China’s total oil consumption and 86 percent of China’s total gasoline production, a senior official said at an automobile industry conference in Tianjin early this week.


"If the trend continues, automobiles will burn 57 percent of China’s total oil consumption by 2010," said Zhang Xiaoyu, president of the council of China Automotive Engineering Society (CAES) and vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation.

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jeffy210 - 9/13/2007 9:56:57 AM

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Does anyone have US numbers for the same items? I'd be interested in seeing the comparison.

toolatetorace - 9/13/2007 10:00:53 AM

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Well , then China better start drilling some of their own oil wells and start refining some fuel themselves . Better yet , drill alot of them and then they can export some of it and lower the crude prices. They have lowered the prices on everthing else .

david989 - 9/13/2007 10:05:26 AM

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Once Toyota and Lexus hybrids reach China I calculate that this figure will go down to 43%.

Lemantech - 9/13/2007 6:28:08 PM

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once you stop doing drugs i calculate your IQ figure will go from 5 to 7.

truckmen - 9/15/2007 1:56:22 AM

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There is new technology that can save us all!
The air car! One one tank of gas it can travel across America From LA to New York! Once the auto industry starts to use this tech. the world will be a better place! And it sounds like a normal internal combustion engine.