Consumption

The United States consumes by far the most energy of any country in the world: on average 20,000,000 barrels of oil a day. Although the US accounts for only 5.5% of the worlds population, 20,000,000 barrels represents 26% of the world's total oil production (a quarter of the world's carbon emissions). Domestic oil production is roughly 5 million barrels of oil per day which means that a net import of 15 million barrels of oil per day are necessary to fuel our energy dependant economy.