Table 4-4: U.S. Energy Consumption by the Transportation Sector

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(Quadrillion Btu)

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	(P) 2009
Energy consumption (all sectors)	45.09	54.02	67.84	72.00	78.12	(R) 76.49	(R) 84.65	(R) 84.61	(R) 85.96	(R) 87.60	(R) 89.26	(R) 91.17	(R) 94.17	(R) 94.76	(R) 95.18	(R) 96.81	(R) 98.97	(R) 96.32	(R) 97.85	(R) 98.13	(R) 100.31	(R) 100.44	(R) 99.79	(R) 101.53	(R) 99.40	94.58
Total transportation consumptiona	10.60	12.43	16.10	18.24	19.70	(R) 20.09	(R) 22.42	(R) 22.12	(R) 22.41	(R) 22.77	(R) 23.36	(R) 23.85	(R) 24.44	(R) 24.75	(R) 25.26	(R) 25.95	(R) 26.55	(R) 26.27	(R) 26.84	(R) 26.99	(R) 27.89	(R) 28.35	(R) 28.83	(R) 29.12	(R) 28.03	27.03
Transportation as percent of total energy consumption	23.5	23.0	23.7	25.3	25.2	(R) 26.3	(R) 26.5	(R) 26.1	(R) 26.1	(R) 26.0	(R) 26.2	(R) 26.2	(R) 25.9	(R) 26.1	(R) 26.5	(R) 26.8	(R) 26.8	(R) 27.3	(R) 27.4	(R) 27.5	(R) 27.8	(R) 28.2	(R) 28.9	(R) 28.7	(R) 28.2	28.6
Total primary consumptionb	10.49	12.38	16.05	18.21	19.66	20.04	22.37	22.07	22.36	22.72	23.31	23.79	24.38	24.70	25.20	25.89	26.49	26.22	26.79	(R) 26.92	27.82	(R) 28.27	(R) 28.75	(R) 29.03	(R) 27.94	26.95
Coalc	0.075	0.016	0.007	0.001	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
in million short tonsc	3.046	0.655	0.298	0.024	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Natural gasd	0.36	0.52	0.74	0.59	0.65	0.52	0.68	0.62	0.61	0.64	0.71	0.72	0.74	0.78	0.67	0.68	0.67	0.66	0.70	(R) 0.63	(R) 0.60	(R) 0.62	0.62	(R) 0.67	(R) 0.69	0.69
in trillion cubic feet	0.35	0.50	0.72	0.58	0.63	0.50	0.66	0.60	0.59	0.63	0.69	0.70	0.72	0.76	0.64	0.66	0.65	0.64	0.68	0.61	0.59	0.61	0.61	(R) 0.65	(R) 0.68	0.67
Petroleum productse	10.13	11.87	15.31	17.61	19.01	19.47	21.62	21.37	21.67	(R) 21.98	(R) 22.50	(R) 22.95	(R) 23.56	(R) 23.81	(R) 24.42	(R) 25.10	(R) 25.68	(R) 25.41	(R) 25.91	(R) 26.06	(R) 26.92	(R) 27.31	(R) 27.65	(R) 27.76	(R) 26.42	25.34
in million barrels	1,880	2,203	2,839	3,267	3,494	3,591	3,974	3,929	3,982	4,060	4,167	4,259	(R) 4,363	4,416	4,533	(R) 4,659	(R) 4,762	(R) 4,722	(R) 4,821	4,862	(R) 5,021	5,094	5,175	5,215	(R) 5,019	4,846
Electricity	0.010	0.010	0.011	0.010	0.011	0.014	0.016	0.016	0.016	0.016	0.017	0.017	0.017	0.017	0.017	0.017	0.018	0.020	0.019	0.023	0.025	0.026	0.025	0.028	(R) 0.026	0.026
Electrical system energy lossesf	0.026	0.024	0.026	0.024	0.027	0.032	0.037	0.037	0.037	0.037	0.038	0.039	0.038	0.038	0.038	0.040	0.042	(R) 0.043	(R) 0.042	0.051	0.055	(R) 0.056	(R) 0.054	(R) 0.060	(R) 0.057	0.056

KEY: Btu = British thermal unit; N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised.

^a Sum of primary consumption, electricity, and electrical system energy losses categories.

^b Sum of biomass, natural gas, and petroleum categories.

^c Beginning from 1980, small amounts of coal consumed for transportation are included in industrial sector consumption.

^d Consumed in the operation of pipelines, primarily in compressors, and small amounts consumed as vehicle fuel.

^e Includes most nonutility use of fossil fuels to produce electricity and small amounts (about 0.1 quadrillion Btu per year since 1990) of renewable energy in the form of ethanol blended into motor gasoline.

^f Incurred in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity plus plant use and unaccounted for electrical system energy losses.

NOTE

Energy consumption (all sectors) differs from totals in table 4-2 for 1990 and subsequent years.

SOURCES

All except noted:

U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review (Washington DC: Annual Issues), tables 2.1a, 2-1e, 4-3, 7-3, and 5-13c, available at http://www.eia.doe.gov as of August 2010.

Natural gas:

Cubic feet:

1960-70: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2000, DOE/EIA-0384 (2000) (Washington DC: August 2001) table 6.5.

1975-2008: Ibid., Monthly Energy Review (Washington DC: December 2009), table 4.3, available at http://www.eia.doe.gov as of August 2010.