Table 4-4: U.S. Energy Consumption by the Transportation Sector (Quadrillion Btu)

Friday, July 22, 2016

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	(R) 2008	(R) 2009	(R) 2010	(R) 2011	(R) 2012	(R) 2013	2014	2015
Energy consumption (all sectors)	45.09	54.02	67.84	71.96	78.07	76.39	84.49	84.44	85.78	87.37	89.09	91.03	94.02	94.60	95.02	96.65	98.82	96.17	97.65	(R) 97.92	(R) 100.09	(R) 100.19	(R) 99.49	(R) 101.03	98.91	94.14	97.48	96.90	94.49	97.24	98.51	97.53
Total transportation consumption^a	10.60	12.43	16.10	18.25	19.70	20.09	22.42	22.12	22.42	22.71	23.37	23.85	24.44	24.75	25.26	25.95	26.56	26.28	26.85	26.90	27.84	28.28	28.72	28.86	27.49	26.69	27.06	26.71	26.22	26.75	27.13	27.71
Transportation as percent of total energy consumption	23.5	23.0	23.7	25.4	25.23	26.30	26.54	26.19	26.13	26.00	26.23	26.20	25.99	26.16	26.58	26.85	26.87	27.3	27.5	(R) 27.5	(R) 27.8	(R) 28.2	(R) 28.9	(R) 28.6	27.8	28.3	27.8	27.6	27.7	27.5	27.5	28.4
Total primary consumption^b	10.56	12.40	16.06	18.21	19.66	20.04	22.37	22.06	22.36	22.66	23.31	23.80	24.38	24.70	25.21	25.89	26.50	26.22	26.79	26.83	27.76	28.20	28.64	28.77	27.40	26.60	26.98	26.63	26.14	26.67	27.05	27.63
Coal^c	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	N	N	N	N	N	N
in million short tons^c	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	N	N	N	N	N	N
Natural gas^d	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	0.63	0.60	0.62	0.62	0.66	0.69	0.71	0.72	0.73	0.78	0.89	0.90	0.92
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	0.65	0.67	0.70	0.70	0.72	0.76	0.86	0.87	0.89
Petroleum products^e	10.13	11.87	15.31	17.62	19.01	19.47	21.63	21.37	21.67	21.92	22.50	22.96	23.57	23.81	24.43	25.10	25.69	25.42	25.92	25.97	26.87	27.24	27.54	27.51	25.89	24.95	25.18	24.74	24.20	24.51	24.86	25.36
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	4,363	4,416	4,533	4,659	4,762	4,722	4,821	4,849	5,021	5,094	5,175	5,215	4,985	4,853	4,930	4,856	4,769	4,845	4,917	5,025
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	0.026	0.027	0.026	0.026	0.025	0.026	0.026	0.026
Electrical system energy losses^f	0.026	0.024	0.026	0.024	0.027	0.032	0.037	0.037	0.036	0.037	0.038	0.038	0.038	0.038	0.038	0.040	0.042	0.043	0.042	0.051	0.054	0.056	0.054	0.060	0.056	0.056	0.055	0.054	0.051	0.053	0.053	0.052

KEY: Btu = British thermal unit; N = data do not exist; 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, and 5-13c, available at http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/ as of May 25, 2016.

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.

1975-2015: Ibid., Monthly Energy Review, table 4.3, available at http://www.eia.doe.gov as of May 25, 2016.

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Table 4-4: U.S. Energy Consumption by the Transportation Sector (Quadrillion Btu)