Sentence examples for consumption surge from inspiring English sources

The United States is the only major industrialized nation to see its oil consumption surge since the oil shocks of the 1970s and 1980s.

The utility estimates $10 billion in costs, including new natural gas plants to deal with consumption surges.

In the mid-1980s oil consumption surged in part because when oil fell below $20 a barrel, it was often substituted for gas.

Argentina's oil production fell 12 percent from 2003 to 2010, even as the country's economy expanded and energy consumption surged 38 percent.

But slower, more carefully orchestrated growth might also avoid wasteful and disruptive bottlenecks.In 2003, for example, electricity consumption surged so unexpectedly that China began suffering from repeated brownouts as the grid ran short of power.

But as water consumption surges and Sanaa's water table drops rapidly, the city's sources are expected to be depleted in the coming decade.

China's share in global material consumption surged from only 7% in 1950 to 34% in 2010.

The birth boom triggered an oil-consumption surge that went up an average of ten per cent a year during the revolution's first three decades — until 2010, according to an Iranian Web site.

Together they are opening hundreds of new stores every year in the expectation that Chinese consumption will surge as its middle class grows bigger and richer.

By 2030, says Jadwa, consumption could surge from around 3.5m barrels of oil per day at present to 6.5m if domestic prices are not allowed to rise substantially.

But some politicians fear that its consumption will surge if Colombia passes into law a personal dose of ecstasy.