Where to find yearly gasoline consumption statistics?

[HomerJS]

A Shell oil exec trying to explain the high prices while oil prices are down said this morning that demand for gasoline is up.

So I searched for gasoline consumption statistics. I can't seem to find any, including the Dept of Energy and Dept of Transportation. DOT only has stats from 1995-2001.

Anyone know wherer this info can be found?

 

[Genx87]

I'd think somewhere on the DOE site. The number I heard was consumption up 2% in the United States in 2006.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

and a recent article said that over the memorial day weekend 1.2 BILLION gallons of gas were consumed... which is a mind blowing number

how can't you have record profits when you sell so much?

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Shivetya
and a recent article said that over the memorial day weekend 1.2 BILLION gallons of gas were consumed... which is a mind blowing number

how can't you have record profits when you sell so much?

Yep. I believe 350 million gallons per day is the rough figure, and with the heavy traffic over the holiday weekend 1.2 billion sounds spot on.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Here ya go, the prices, the volumes, etc of gasoline


so the real number is slightly over 9 million gallons a day. I am not sure where I found that 1.2 billion but its obviously wrong, it may have been the AJC

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Shivetya
so the real number is slightly over 9 million barrels a day.

Um, you weren't wrong with your first post, you were wrong with the post I quoted above. So, I fixed it (you mixed barrels and gallons).

9.5 million barrels of gas = 399 million gallons of gas.

399 million gallons * 3 days = 1.197 billion gallons for the weekend in the US.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Shivetya
so the real number is slightly over 9 million barrels a day.

Um, you weren't wrong with your first post, you were wrong with the post I quoted above. So, I fixed it (you mixed barrels and gallons).

9.5 million barrels of gas = 399 million gallons of gas.

399 million gallons * 3 days = 1.197 billion gallons for the weekend in the US.

oops again, thanks for catching that.

399 million gallons a day? damn...

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Shivetya
399 million gallons a day? damn...

It really isn't as bad as it sounds. That is just over 1 gallon per person. Or enough for one round trip for a store ~10 miles away for many vehicles (assuming each person in the family each needed one trip).

I helped contribute. 400 mile round trip to Kansas city + 10 miles in KC. Total use ~11 gallons. But that was for 3 of us. So, just over 1 gallon per person per day.

 

[jrenz]

The growth in consumption isn't primarily from the US... it's from developing countries like China and India. Don't forget that these oil companies are multinational corporations, not just US based.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: jrenz
Don't forget that these oil companies are multinational corporations, not just US based.

How long have they been in the gasoline business???