{"id":360958,"date":"2026-09-03T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:03:08","slug":"cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Cratering oil use in China shows the death spiral that could end oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Chinese oil use dropped drastically in Q2 of this year, leading to an overall drop in emissions for the country. That alone is a big deal \u2013 but the potential effects of the world\u2019s second-largest oil consumer rapidly passing peak oil could have massive effects on the world\u2019s oil markets. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/09\/03\/cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cratering-oil-use-in-china-shows-the-death-spiral-that-could-end-oil\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":360959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}