'consumes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe an action that someone is doing or that something is happening. For example, "The fire consumes the dry wood in minutes".
"The Ivory Coast is responsible for around 60% of the world's cocoa, yet most Ivorian farmers know little of the world that consumes their product".
The male dominated power struggle that continually plays out in this bureaucracy consumes approximately half of the state's GDP.
Teaching unions are also concerned over the time the issue consumes.
"For example, if you were to ask someone how much energy a dishwashing machine would use in an hour, on average they would tend to underestimate it by factor of 800 times less than what it actually consumes," she said.
The report, Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that on average, each person in the UK consumes 10.6 litres of pure alcohol a year, compared with 9.5 litres across the OECD's 34 member countries.
That policy still aims to bolster energy independence from OPEC by boosting domestic supplies, including oil found in protected parts of Alaska.Alas, America will never achieve energy "independence", given that it consumes a quarter of the world's oil but has less than 3% of its proven reserves.
Thanks to fracking, the United States has become the world's swing producer, and within a decade or so the North American continent stands to produce as much energy as it consumes.
Mr Brown says he consumes as many of his kills as he can, however.
In a world where the cost of coolth is a significant economic drain (industrial cooling consumes 7% of the electricity generated within the European Union) that offers a worthwhile gain.
Turkey, which has a population much the same size as Iran's and is more industrialised, consumes about 60% less fuel.
After foreign governments agreed to write off loans, debt service consumes a modest 17% of exports.
