Criticism
First of all, this list is original research, though it consists of simple math, a casual user cannot verify rankings are accurate in a matter of a few minutes, and second of all, its usefulness is limited as it does not accurately reflect GDP energy or carbon intensity as oil is not the only significant hydrocarbon nor energy resource. The fact that many of the numbers from the CIA are mere guesses (see notes), figures are from differing years, and that many do not reflect the use of oil consumed in the process of making refined products makes this list even less meaningful. Also, the calculation is performed using nominal GDP which does not take into account of purchasing power of different currencies.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he can divide.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)