BTS | Table 4-3: Domestic Demand for Refined Petroleum Products by Sector

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Table 4-3: Domestic Demand for Refined Petroleum Products by Sector

(Quadrillion Btu)

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Transportation	10.13	11.87	15.31	17.61	19.01	19.50	21.81	21.46	21.81	22.20	22.76	23.20	23.74	^R23.99	^R24.68	^R25.49	26.25
Industrial	5.75	6.79	7.79	8.15	9.53	7.81	8.32	8.06	8.64	8.45	8.85	8.62	^R9.06	^R9.29	^R9.10	^R9.40	9.16
Residential and commercial	3.49	3.87	4.31	3.81	3.04	2.52	2.17	2.15	2.13	2.14	2.09	2.08	^R2.24	^R2.16	^R1.99	^R2.13	2.22
Electric utilities	0.55	0.73	2.12	3.17	2.63	1.09	1.25	1.18	0.95	1.05	0.97	0.66	0.73	0.82	1.17	0.94	0.78
Total petroleum demand	19.92	23.26	29.53	32.73	34.20	30.92	33.55	32.85	33.53	33.84	34.67	34.55	35.76	36.27	36.93	^R37.96	38.40
Transportation as % of total	50.9	51.0	51.8	53.8	55.6	63.1	65.0	65.3	65.0	65.6	65.7	67.1	66.4	^R66.1	^R66.8	^R67.2	68.4

KEY: Btu = British thermal unit; R = revised.

NOTE: Transportation's share of U.S. petroleum demand in this table differs slightly from table 4-1because this table takes into account differences within sectors in the use of various grades of petroleum-based fuel that have different Btu content per unit volume.

SOURCES:

1960-70: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 1997, DOE/EIA-0384(97) (Washington, DC: July 1998), tables 2.1, 5.12b, and A3.

1975-00: Ibid., Monthly Energy Review, Internet site www.eia.doe.gov/gov/pub/energy.overview/monthly.energy/ as of Aug. 9, 2001, tables, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.