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Originally Posted by photon
Overall demand could increase while at the same time the dependance on oil could be decreasing. You'd have to adjust for overall demand for energy; i.e. what percentage of total global energy usage does fossil fuels make up? If that's decreasing, then dependence on oil is decreasing. I have no idea of the actual numbers, but that's what decreasing dependence would mean to me.
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I don't see it. If coal consumption goes down by 2% but oil consumption goes up by 5% the net fossil fuel usage has increased and so has oil.
To me demand = dependance