Table 4. Total Energy Expenditures in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- | | |_______________________________________| | gible | | | | | | | | for | | | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal | | | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- | | Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 | |_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE | | | | | | | | Row RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |Factors ____________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_______ Million Households _____________________________________________________________________________ | Total U.S. Households....... 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7 | Number of Households, Fuels | Used (more than one may | apply): | Electricity2.............. 101.4 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.7 Natural Gas............... 61.9 8.0 17.0 19.0 17.9 9.1 20.4 | 4.3 Fuel Oil.................. 10.0 1.3 2.5 3.2 3.0 1.4 3.4 | 10.4 Kerosene.................. 3.5 0.4 1.2 1.2 0.6 0.6 1.4 | 14.5 LPG....................... 8.1 1.0 2.4 2.7 1.9 1.2 2.8 | 12.7 Wood...................... 15.0 0.7 3.0 4.7 6.7 1.1 3.0 | 9.4 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Billion Dollars _____________________________________________________________________________ | Total Expenditures, Fuels | Used: | Electricity............... 88.33 8.36 21.92 26.61 31.43 10.29 24.79 | 3.4 Natural Gas............... 35.81 3.74 8.82 11.17 12.08 4.35 10.54 | 5.4 Fuel Oil.................. 7.11 0.66 1.52 2.21 2.73 0.69 1.97 | 12.1 Kerosene.................. 0.50 0.08 0.19 0.18 0.06 0.12 0.22 | 23.4 LPG....................... 4.04 0.43 1.20 1.39 1.02 0.50 1.34 | 14.8 Total..................... 135.79 13.26 33.65 41.56 47.33 15.95 38.86 | 2.9 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Dollars per Household3 _____________________________________________________________________________ | Total Expenditures per | Household, Fuels Used: | Electricity............... 871 630 752 855 1,126 703 728 | 2.3 Natural Gas............... 579 469 518 589 673 476 516 | 3.0 Fuel Oil.................. 714 505 603 699 914 498 576 | 5.3 Kerosene.................. 144 192 149 147 99 185 163 | 19.6 LPG....................... 500 412 493 518 531 433 482 | 8.6 Total..................... 1,338 997 1,155 1,335 1,696 1,088 1,140 | 1.6 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Dollars per Million Btu3 _____________________________________________________________________________ | Average Price of Btu | Consumption, Fuels Used: | Electricity............... 24.97 25.05 24.70 24.63 25.44 25.04 25.16 | 1.3 Natural Gas............... 6.78 7.06 6.76 6.78 6.72 6.86 6.88 | 1.6 Fuel Oil.................. 7.05 6.22 6.87 7.03 7.42 6.16 6.66 | 1.5 Kerosene.................. 8.51 8.58 8.54 8.41 8.61 8.68 8.64 | 1.7 LPG....................... 11.23 11.36 11.18 10.66 12.12 11.33 11.42 | 2.8 Total..................... 13.25 13.05 13.23 13.01 13.55 13.12 13.15 | 1.8 __________________________________________________________________________________________________|_______ See footnotes at end of table.
Table 4. Total Energy Expenditures in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997 (Continued) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- | | |_______________________________________| | gible | | | | | | | | for | | | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal | | | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- | | Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 | |_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE | | | | | | | | Row RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |Factors ____________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_______ Price per Physical Unit3 _____________________________________________________________________________ | Average Price of Physical | Units of Consumption, Fuels | Used: | Electricity (cents per | kWh)...................... 8.5 8.5 8.4 8.4 8.7 8.5 8.6 | 1.3 Natural Gas (dollars per | thousand cf).............. 6.96 7.25 6.94 6.96 6.90 7.04 7.07 | 1.6 Fuel Oil (dollars per | gallon)................... 0.98 0.86 0.95 0.98 1.03 0.85 0.92 | 1.5 Kerosene (dollars per | gallon)................... 1.15 1.16 1.15 1.14 1.16 1.17 1.17 | 1.7 LPG (dollars per gallon).. 1.03 1.04 1.02 0.97 1.11 1.03 1.04 | 2.8 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Million Households _____________________________________________________________________________ | Number of Households, Where | the End Use Is: | Space Heating4............ 99.7 12.8 28.5 30.7 27.6 14.0 33.0 | 2.8 Electric Air-Conditioning5 72.6 8.1 19.3 23.1 22.2 8.3 20.9 | 3.6 Water Heating6............ 100.8 13.0 29.0 31.0 27.7 14.4 33.7 | 2.8 Refrigerators............. 101.3 13.2 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.8 Appliances................ 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Billion Dollars _____________________________________________________________________________ | Total Expenditures, Where | the End Use Is: | Space Heating............. 42.03 4.33 10.78 13.12 13.79 4.73 12.20| 3.3 Electric Air-Conditioning. 10.20 0.91 2.39 2.86 4.04 1.00 2.48| 6.1 Water Heating............. 19.76 2.08 5.22 6.14 6.33 2.71 6.40| 3.0 Refrigerators............. 12.14 1.36 3.15 3.55 4.07 1.52 3.61| 3.2 Other Appliances and | Lighting.................. 51.66 4.58 12.10 15.89 19.10 5.99 14.18| 3.2 _____________________________________________________________________|_______ Dollars per Household3 _____________________________________________________________________________ | Total Expenditures per | Household, Where the End Use | Is: | Space Heating............. 421 338 378 427 499 338 370 | 2.6 Electric Air-Conditioning. 140 113 124 124 182 120 119 | 4.8 Water Heating............. 196 160 180 198 228 189 190 | 1.8 Refrigerators............. 120 103 108 114 146 104 106 | 2.0 Other Appliances and | Lighting.................. 509 344 415 510 684 409 416 | 2.0 __________________________________________________________________________________________________|_______ 1 Below 150 percent of poverty line or 60 percent of median State income. 2 The RECS cannot be used to accurately estimate the number of households that do not use electricity. 3 The averages for total and for appliances are over the set of all households; otherwise the averages are over the set of households using a given fuel or over the set using a given end use. 4 Households where the main or secondary space-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, kerosene, or LPG. 5 The number of households, where the end use is electric air-conditioning, does not include households that did not use their equipment (0.9 million). It does include the small number of households where the fuel for central air-conditioning equipment was something other than electricity; those households were treated as if the fuel was electricity. 6 Households where the main or secondary water-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, kerosene, or LPG. Notes: • To obtain the RSE percentage for any table cell, multiply the corresponding column and row factors. • Because of rounding, data may not sum to totals. • See "Glossary" for definition of terms used in this report. Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Forms EIA-457 A-G of the 1997 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.