Meanwhile.... (energy usage by countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) (A Survey of Energy)

Economist (US), The, June, 1994

OECD energy use should grow at the annual rate of 1.3% a year, accounting for 45% of world energy usage by the year 2010. OECD countries will become less dependent on fossil fuels, but it is still questionable what alternative sources will become viable.

ASIA and Latin America might be the fastest-changing markets for energy. But they are not yet the biggest. That accolade still belongs to the OECD. While developing countries strive merely to satisfy their needs, energy in rich countries revolves around the control of pollution, fears about a growing dependence on imports-- and, perhaps, the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel era.

The IEA suggests that energy use in the OECD will grow by 1.3% a year; and in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by 0.3%...

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