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Subject: US Oil
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: andrewv-ga
List Price: $6.00
Posted: 16 Mar 2003 21:57 PST
Expires: 15 Apr 2003 22:57 PDT
Question ID: 177194
In regards to conservation of oil and SUV's I am interested in what
percentage of our oil is actually used for automobiles and any other
information relating to that.  For example, how much oil the average
automobile uses or what are the other major uses of oil and their
percentages.
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Subject: Re: US Oil
Answered By: juggler-ga on 16 Mar 2003 23:39 PST
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello.

An article entitled, "Ending The Oil Age: A Plan to Kick the Saudi
Habit" (2002) by Charles Komanoff, includes the exact data that you
seek.

Here are the United States' major uses of oil and their percentages:

"Cars (includes SUV's, minivans, pickups)            40.7 %
Trucks (weighing > 8500 lbs)                         12.7 %
Raw material for plastics, chemicals, etc.           10.3 %
Air travel (passenger; freight is shown separately)   6.7 %
Process heat for factories                            5.0 %
Heat + hot water for homes, offices, stores, etc.     4.9 %
Energy to run oil refineries                          3.3 %
Road pavement                                         2.8 %
Waterborne freight (domestic + international)         2.5 %
Agriculture (drying crops, farm machinery, etc.)      2.2 %
Electricity generation                                1.6 %
Construction machinery                                1.6 %
Military (mostly jets)                                1.5 %
Rail freight                                          1.2 %
Air freight                                           1.1 %
Recreational vehicles (boats, ATV's, etc.)            1.0 % "

Source: "Ending The Oil Age," by Charles Komanoff, compiled from
Department of Energy data, and published in hosted by rightofway.org:
http://www.rightofway.org/research/oilage.html#HOW

search strategy: "oil consumption", automobiles, airplanes,
petrochemical

I hope this helps.
andrewv-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars
Was exactly what I was looking for.  Additional information would have
been nice, such as the amounts of oil we use or stuff like that.  But
the researcher did asnwer the question and then some.  Great job.

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