Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Fuel Usage by Sector in the U.S....

I'm wondering which sectors of the US economy use which percentages of the overall oil/fuel use.

Does anyone know or have a good hunch?

I can picture several sectors as responding quite quickly and sanely to the need to conserve. But what would the overall impact be?

For instance:

*There's no need to use airlines for recreation travel. Let that go to near zero. It's a waste.
*There's no need to have cold commerical buildings in the summer and hot ones in the winter. Switch to, say, 75F summer temp and 65F winter temp, as a start. (As it is, Martha and I wear winter coats when we go to a movie or restaurant in the summer and we wear Hawaiian shirts when we go to public buildings in the winter. Who's INSANE, us or them?)
*Short jaunts can be done by bike, foot or canoe.
*Rec vehicles don't need motors---won't quiet lakes and uneroded woodlands be nice? Bike, canoe, sailboat, rowboat, horse, mule, llama, donkey---all work fine for fun.

Anyway, here are the major U.S. energy sector players that I picture (fill in any missing big ones). Maybe they could be grouped in bigger chunks...

individuals (commuting, driving, recreation/ATV, lawn/yard)
airlines individual biz/recreation
airlines material transport
trucking
trains
boats/shipping (for transport)
boats cruiselines/recreation
home heat/cool
biz heat/cool
industry
construction (bldgs, roads)
ag (incl. timber)
boats---commercial fishing
mass trans (incl. Amtrak)
infra trans (cops, fire, EMT, govt)
military

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OK: I heard back in a couple emails about this:

The results are that approx one-third of fuel is used by each of the 3 main sectors: residential, commercial and industrial. I don't know how they break down as per above.

Here's more:

Brief 2004 numbers (in kbarrels/day):

transportation 13,621
industrial 5,082
residential 893
electrical power 527
commercial 395

Gory details here:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/txt/ptb0513a.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/txt/ptb0513b.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/txt/ptb0513c.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/txt/ptb0513d.html

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