I'm not sure I follow. You're counting nation-wide petroleum production of these countries against 1/20th of the oil production of one US state, which only prod

I'm not sure I follow. You're counting nation-wide petroleum production of these countries against 1/20th of the oil production of one US state, which only produces a fraction of the 15 million barrels of oil produced daily in the US. How is that a better comparison? Let me make my point even clearer: go pour a glass of gasoline out in your yard (hypothetically, don't actually do this). You have now polluted more than over a hundred countries' oil production industries. Because out of the ~200 countries on Earth, only 96 have oil industries. I could turn around and write, "one man contributed more oil spills than the oil industries of hundreds of countries!" and in a purely factual sense this is correct. But anyone who bothers to scrutinize this statement will see that it is very misleading.