For all of you conspiracy buffs:

....China Up 8.4 Pct ...

....Oil and natural gas reserves were largely unchanged...

....North America fell 0.5 percent -- with a 1.0 percent drop in the
United States partially offset by increases of 1.7 percent in Canada
and 4 percent in Mexico...

....Chinese energy use continued to account for the majority of global
energy consumption growth and the country now accounts for over 15
percent of world energy use...

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070612/world..._use.html?.v=1

Clearly the Chinese are conspiring to use a lot of oil to produce the
products we buy from them.