U.S. Energy : Overview and Selected Facts and Numbers (R40187) / Carl E. Behrens, Carol F. Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behrens, Carl E., author.

Glover, Carol F., author.

Series:

CRS report for Congress.

CRS report for Congress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy consumption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, District of Columbia] : Congressional Research Service, 2009.

Summary:

The historical trends show petroleum as the major source of energy, rising from about 38% in 1950 to 45% in 1975, then declining to about 40% in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s. [...] The importance of this dependence on the volatile world oil market was revealed over the past five years as perceptions of impending inability of the industry to meet increasing world demand led to relentless increases in the prices of oil and gasoline. [...] For the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors, the consumption figures given are the sum of the resources such as oil and 1 Further complications can result from the fact that not all sources use the same abbreviations for the various units. [...] Consumption of major energy resources-petroleum, natural gas, and coal-is presented in Table 2 and Figure 3. The historical trends show that petroleum has been and continues to be the major source of energy, rising from about 38% in 1950 to 45% in 1975, then declining to about 40% in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s. [...] About 40% of the energy consumed in the United States is supplied by petroleum, and that proportion has remained approximately the same since 1950, as the data in the previous section show.

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