a. These illegals are eating food and that causes farmers to grow more and thus use more energy.
b. These illegals need a place to live and that causes the homebuilders to build more living units and thus use more energy.
Oil is a global market. Wouldn't these people travel, eat and live if they stayed in their home countries?
Why would them being in the US increase global oil consumption?
“”””Oil is a global market. Wouldn’t these people travel, eat and live if they stayed in their home countries?
Why would them being in the US increase global oil consumption?”””
Their energy consumption in their home country is probably a tenth of what it is in the USA.