"Doug Kanter" wrote:

In case Fruitz pretends not to notice the question I just asked him, I'll
ask you: Please indicate specifics as to WHERE you believe this increased
demand is coming from. If you choose to repeat "China...", as others have,
please provide data.


Where have you been hiding, Kanter? Been in a cave the last few years?

Here's just one of *dozens* of articles with the knowledge you seem to lack.
Please educate yourself.

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update45.htm

Here's a quote: "With oil, the United States is still solidly in the lead
with consumption triple that of China's-20.4 million barrels per day to 6.5
million barrels in 2004. But while oil use in the United States expanded by
only 15 percent from 1994 to 2004, use in the new industrial giant more than
doubled. Having recently eclipsed Japan as an oil consumer, China is now
second only to the United States."

China is waking up, they are hungry, and they are rapidly building their
industrial machine. Their escalating economy is allowing China's "Joe
Average" to own a car for the first time.

How in the hell do you think they manage to make *everything* that Wal-Mart
sells? By rubbing two sticks together? Sheeesh...

Jack