Little bit of anti-US antipathy there Nick?
The US spends, consumes and lives large because it produces the most.
Sure, we're not as big and as grand as we were in the sixties, but we're not down and out yet.
Your suggestions make it sound as if living large is a crime and that you'll only be happy when all Americans live like communists in bunker style apartments outside of Moscow.
Capitalism is not a crime, it is the sole style of economic/societal philosophies which produces an escalation in living comfort and style.
Now take all that sour grapes, let them ferment awhile and make some wine.
Then drink to the propserity of America and Australia. After that drink a toast to capitalism, that helped create the need for an oil industry in the first place.
;-)