I wouldn't say we 'waste' more oil than other countries....we may/probably yews more.
I would really hope that dudes would put all that effort into finding alternate resources instead of killing thousands of people and starting a war....
BTW, Spain (as most of Europe) has almost no oil reservoirs in relation to the rest of the world.
The image below shows oil reservoirs for the world....darker means more oil.

Below is a chart of NON-PRODUCING consuming countries:
(These countries yews a lot of oil without producing ANY.)
#↓ Consuming Nation↓ (bbl/day)↓ (m³/day)↓
1 Japan 5,578,000 886,831
2 Germany 2,677,000 425,609
3 South Korea 2,061,000 327,673
4 France 2,060,000 327,514
5 Italy 1,874,000 297,942
6 Spain 1,537,000 244,3637 Netherlands 946,700 150,513
8 Turkey 575,011 91,663
Historically, we've been right up there with the top oil-producing countries...

We produce about half and import about half of what we yews.
I would guess that our dudes are at least smart enough to not tap out our reserves as long as other places are willing to sell us theirs. One day, that may mean that we would have the bulk of the world's oil supply.
The table below orders the amount of petroleum consumed in 2008 in thousand barrels (bbl) per day and in thousand cubic metres (m3) per day and yearly barrels per capita(for each):
I ordered them by per capita.(
You'll notice that there are two countries who yews more petrol/person than the US does.)
Consuming Nation 2008↓ (1000 bbl/day)↓ (1000 m3/day)↓ population in millions↓ bbl/year/capita↓
Saudi Arabia (OPEC) 2,376.00 377.8 25 33.7
Canada 2,261.36 359.5 33 24.6
United States 19,497.95 3,099.9 314 22.6
South Korea 2,174.91 345.8 48 16.4
Japan 4,784.85 760.7 127 13.7
France 1,986.26 315.8 62 11.6
Germany 2,569.28 408.5 82 11.4
United Kingdom 1,709.66 271.8 61 10.1
Italy 1,639.01 260.6 60 10
Iran (OPEC) 1,741.00 276.8 74 8.6
Russia 2,916.00 463.6 140 7.6
Mexico 2,128.46 338.4 109 7.1
Brazil 2,485.00 395.1 193 4.7
China 7,831.00 1,245.0 1345 2.1
India 2,962.00 470.9 1198 0.9
This all comes from wikipedia, btw:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetroleumBesides...Iraq doesn't have that much of the world's oil. If we really wanted to grab a ton of oil, we'd still be at war with Russia....or maybe pay a little visit to our Canadian neighbors...lol
Don't believe everything you hear.
~archi