After years of often explosive growth, fuel consumption in Asia’s biggest economies is stuttering, undermining efforts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to end a global supply glut and lift prices. Gobbling up over a third of global supplies, Asia is the world’s biggest and fastest growing region for oil consumption, and its seemingly insatiable fuel thirst has long been a core support for prices. Now, some say that picture of buoyant growth in demand is crumbling. “The signs of growing demand aren’t quite what they seem. Chinese fuel growth is at a three year low, Japanese fuel demand is down,” said Matt […]