「China's Oil Needs Are High on U.S. Agenda」 By DAVID E. SANGER China's oil demand, which the U.S. has blamed in part for rising prices, will be a subject of President Hu Jintao's visit. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/world/asia/19china.html "In 2004 China used some 6.5 million barrels of oil a day and overtook Japan as the world's second largest user of petroleum products. The largest, the United States, consumes about 20 million barrels a day."