Tertzakian (author of A Thousand Barrels a Day) calculated "Oil Dependency Factors" for leading economies. India and China topped the list at 94 and 90 respectively with the US at 45. Japan, Germany, Russia, Italy, and UK were all less than zero. Based on BP data for 2004-2005 for consumption and World Bank GDP 2004 / IMF GDP 2005 "estimate" India and US were less than zero and China was approaching zero. This is of course one year of change and may or may not be sustainable. Tertzakian has a chart for the US of the relationship between GDP and Oil Consumption (p. 105) that is remarkable in showing the response of the US economy to the spike in oil prices in 1979. It would be interesting to look at such a chart updated for 2005 for all the leading economies.