Non Renewable Energy - Casestudy

An important threshold was reached in early 2004: China exceeded Japan in oil imports, becoming the second largest importer of oil. It is also the fastest growing oil consumer in the world. Two million cars were put on the road in China in 2003, which was 70 per cent more than in 2002. Today, there are 10 million cars in China and the number is rapidly growing. If China starts consuming at US levels, it will need 80 million barrels of oil per day, which is 10 million more than the entire world production in 1997. Even at current levels of growth, China would need at least 10 million barrels a day by 2025. Where will that oil come from and how much will it cost?
China, however, has huge coal reserves, enough to last the country 300 years. The environmental cost of burning all that coal would surely be very heavy