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:
“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)
“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)