U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program Overview - Global and U.S. Petroleum Consumption Trends, 1980?2010.
The Transportation Energy Challenge - The U.S. spends about $1 billion per day to import petroleum, The U.S. consumes 19.15 million barrels per day (M bpd), 22.5% of world petroleum production of 85.26 M bpd, U.S.
transportation petroleum use is 69.7% of total U.S. petroleum use, U.S. transportation petroleum use is 172.5% of total U.S.
petroleum production.