This website has annual passenger cars, commercial vehicles and total vehicle production by year, through 2007:

http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/2007-statistics/

It appears that total vehicle production increased from 58.4 million in 2000 to 73.2 million in 2007. Of course, in order to know the net increase in vehicles, we would need to know how many vehicles were scrapped.

In any case, for the sake of argument, if we assume 70 million vehicle sales per year, the 10 year cumulative gross increase in vehicle production would be 700 million vehicles.

The 10 year cumulative gross increase in vehicle production, ending in 2007, was about 615 million.

This "hundreds of millions of people" want to drive cars is a strawman.

Then why have car sales in China boomed?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aDCOM2mACDYY&refer=home

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- China vehicle sales surged 25 percent in February, the first gain in four months, after the government cut taxes on some models, helping the country extend its lead as the world’s largest auto market this year.

Sales of passenger cars, buses and trucks climbed to 827,600, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said today in Beijing. The tally in the first two months rose 2.7 percent to 1.56 million, compared with a 39 percent decline to 1.35 million in the U.S.

Also, a car is not "going to the moon" technology. It is something we understand how to do extremely well, and have mass production capabilities in.

Cars sold in China are more than likely the families "first car," so they are new users of oil, unlike in the US where a new car is more than likely a replacement of an older car.

As long as the car fleet is growing at all, the consumption of oil will grow.

Besides, the other major user of fossil fuels, food production, is more stable in its oil consumption growth.

The fact is when those people do want vehicles they mostly likely choose a new urbanism community that doenst require a car, those that can afford cars will purchase plug in EV's"

--Why would they do that when they can buy an old beater for a thousand bucks and gas is $1.50 a gallon? People will buy whatever is economical for them to buy. As a side note, how many EVs can our current infrastructure support? Every summer the grid here in the US groans and strains under the weight of the existing electric loads. How is this currently practicable to any meaningful degree? I am not even in the third world,I am an American who runs a small business that often involves driving and/or hauling w/ my car. There is no EV even remotely on the horizon that would suit my needs. If I were to buy a new card I would buy a Fit.

"The fact is when those people do want vehicles they mostly likely choose a new urbanism community that doenst require a car"

--yeah assuming they are Yuppies!