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Gasoline prices in the U.S. have been rising lately, but for California the increase has been steeper. According to data of gas prices per county compiled by GasBuddy.com, prices in California are the highest in the U.S. California’s gas prices skyrocketed over the weekend due to supply disruption caused by a power outage to an Exxon Mobil plant in that state. As a result, regular gasoline reached an average record price of $4.614 per gallon.
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The average weekly income in the US has been going up in the last fifty years, at least in nominal terms, as seen in the first graph. The price of a gallon of gas has been trending up as well, with spikes beginning in 2002 up to 2008, when gas prices decreased dramatically as a consequence of the economic recession. In 2010 gas prices increased again and continue rising to this day, as seen in the second graph. It is worth noting that the number of gallons of gas that can be purchased by a person earning an average income has been decreasing steadily since 1998.
India loses about a quarter of its electrical power output due to problems in its transmission and distribution infrastructure. It is one of the worst loss rates in the world, although it pales in comparison to Botswana, where almost 80% of power output is lost.
India is not the only country where businesses suffer significant losses due to power failures. Nepalese firms report that they lose an astonishing 27% of annual sales due to electrical outages. Check our Value lost due to electrical outages indicator for more details.
We released today a new derived indicator using data from the CIA Factbook: Natural Gas Consumption per Capita.
We released today a new derived indicator using data from the CIA Factbook: Electricity Consumption per Capita
We added a new derived indicator using data from the CIA Factbook: crude oil consumption per capita.
Most of the energy production in China is comprised of coal, which in 2006 accounted for 76.7% of total energy production. The chart below shows the percentage share for all types of energy produced in China since 1978.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
You may also want to see the chart of sources of energy in China.
Coal is the primary source of energy in China, with a 69.4% share in 2006. Crude oil had a 20.4%, natural gas had 3.0%, and hydro-, nuclear-, and wind-power accounted for the remaining 7.2%. The chart below shows the percentage share for each energy source since 1978.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Coal accounts for approximately 70% of the total energy consumed in China. This percentage share has not changed much since 1978, as shown in the graph below. It reached a peak of 76.2% in 1990, and a low of 66.3% in 2002.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China