The oil story:

History of economic growth can be traced with oil consumption levels. All figures are in thousan barrels per day of consumption.

	1985	2005
North America	18535	24875
Europe-Eurasia	22235	20350
Asia-Pacific	10464	23957

Russian Decline
	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
	4910	4972	5017	4967	5077	5015	4888	4597	3875	3359	3025	2686	2689	2554	2625	2583	2566	2606	2645	2714	2753
American Growth
	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
	15726	16281	16665	17283	17325	16988	16713	17033	17236	17719	17725	18309	18621	18917	19519	19701	19649	19761	20033	20732	20655

Gulf War
	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Kuwait	162	158	153	149	109	72	110	102	124	130	126	139
Asian Financial Crisis
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
S. Korea	2373	2030	2178	2229	2235
Pakistan War with India,1971
	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975
Pakistan	93	92	87	72	74	79	83