It should have come years ago ( The nuke plants and oil drilling ) then we wouldn't have the spike of oil price and price of consumer goods all over the world.
The world economy ( or more precisely the dollar economy ) runs on oil.
In order of amount consumed in 2006 in thousand bbl/d
Petroleum consumption rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(103bbl/day)
1 United States 20,588
2 China 7,274
3 Japan 5,222