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OK so good point - as usual looking at real numbers is far more informative... Qatar is way worse, yadda yadda.

That said, the US is a pretty bad yardstick. Another way to look at it would be to say that the average UAE citizen uses 250% of what an Iranian uses, or the average Qatar citizen uses 650% of what an Iranian uses, despite a (very) broadly similar climate and self-sufficient energy production.

The US citizen uses 11x more than an Indian, who is only slightly ahead of a North Korean (despite a horrific climate), both of whom are ~3x more than a Bengali.