After rising steadily since last week, oil prices dipped for a second consecutive day amid reports of growing U.S.crude inventories.

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Consider that today the world uses the energy equivalent of 2, 500 barrels of oil every second.

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The world was burning through twenty-three thousand gallons of oil every second.

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China is now the second-largest oil consumer in the world, second only to the United States.

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