consumption
Example Sentences
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China also has three to four months of oil consumption in reserves, and, if necessary, it can boost its purchases of cheap Russian oil.
From Barron's
About 90% of Cuba’s electricity generation system relies on oil, and Cuba produces only 40% of its total oil consumption needs.
"Supply constraints today are less severe" than some fifty years ago and remain concentrated around the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of global consumption of oil and liquefied natural gas typically passes.
From Barron's
The industries are those with highest levels of energy consumption per 1 million euros of output, analysts at the bank calculate.
“It’s quite clear that consumption is driven by subsidies and support. It’s still not a broad-based recovery in consumption or confidence to spend,” the economist said.
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