On: The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude ...

[patfla]

Yes China and the US are basically the same size in area. India is smaller. What, to my mind, gets paid less attention is that the US is, in fact, the 3rd most populous nation in the world.

[djsumdog → patfla]

Yea and it's a sizeable gap too. You're going from billions of people to ~330 million.

If you look at Australia, it's got almost the same land mass, but it's under 40 million people .. and much of that land is totally inhabitable too.