China surpassed the US to become the world's largest energy consumer in 2010, as the rebounding global economy drove worldwide consumption higher and at a rate not seen since the aftermath of the 1973 oil-price shocks, according to the latest annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Total energy consumption in China grew by 11.2% last year.Oil remains the world's leading fuel, at 33.6% of global energy consumption, but it continued to lose market share for the 11th consecutive year. Global oil consumption grew by 3.1%, the strongest growth since 2004, to average 87.38 million b/d.This rate of oil demand growth was more than twice the 10-year average and was the first increase among m...