nobodypanic wrote:i asked you about your thoughts on my opinion about the oil market, not the gasoline market vis-a-vis fuel efficiency gains.
Gasoline is the driver of the oil market, at least here, so looking at it gives a good overview of the market as a whole. Since there aren't many comprehensive looks into the efficiency of oil use overall, that makes it a bit harder to quantify, but at at least we can also look at oil as a whole. Before focusing on efficiency improvements, oil consumption was at about 19mbpd back in
the late seventies, and right now it's at about 19.5mbpd. Population has increased by over thirty percent, as has stuff like vehicle size and the like, so that means any increases in efficiency seen have not increased consumption, but instead decreased it.
nobodypanic wrote:and anyway, as far as i know, since the '75 CAFE standards, while the ICE gained about 34% in efficiency, gasoline consumption rose by something like 90% by the '90s.
As far as you know? You may want to go a bit farther in terms of knowing.
Total gasoline consumption rose by about
10+% from 75 to the mid-90s, and gasoline consumption per capita fell, all while automobiles increased in size and power. If Jevons paradox had held, then gasoline consumption should have increased beyond the increase in vehicle size and population, since the efficiency gains should have pushed per capita consumption higher, but they didn't.
nobodypanic wrote:now i get that you might be a touch sensitive considering that you're surrounded around here
, but since you decided to throw a salvo at me for asking you a question, yeah, i was blinded alright, by tears of laughter.
Tears, ignorance, whatever ya wanna say buddy, it's all gud.