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Gasoline Consumption in Texas

By Mike Collins - Sep 21st, 2009 at 9:58 pm EDT

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.....on another thread where I mentioned annual gasoline consumption in Colorado. 49,635,000 barrels or 2,084,670,000 gallons (2.084 billion gallons)

Texas consumes 256,552,000 barrels of gasoline per year. A whopping 10.775 billion gallons. They are the number one state in the union for gasoline consumption, number two is Florida at 181 million barrels or 7.602 billion gallons. Sounds like Texas has too many cornfield Cadillacs.

California uses less gasoline than Colorado coming in at 35 million barrels or 1.478 billion gallons. The population of California exceeds Texas by 12 million or two and half Colorados. Sounds like we need to Californicate Colorado.

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Gasoline consumption

By Michael Ditto Sep 21st 2009 at 11:31 pm EDT (Updated Sep 21st 2009 at 11:31 pm EDT)

Mike, not sure what the source of the data you cited is, but it didn't seem plausible that California would use less gasoline than Colorado. So I looked it up on the EIA website and here's what I found (Avg. Gallons per day x 1000 in 2008) and calculated the gallons per day per person according to the Census 2008 population estimate:

CA: 7,976.3 (4.6 gal/day/person)
CO: 1,178.1 (4.2 gal/day/person)
FL: 5,343.3 (3.4 gal/day/person)
TX: 6,911.6 (3.5 gal/day/person)

Now that's motor fuel gasoline, not diesel, and it's divided by the gross population, which includes people who don't drive because they might be too young or because they take public transportation. I think your point stands, as we're clearly not doing the best among the four states, but Texas and California seem to be inverted.


Source

By Mike Collins Sep 22nd 2009 at 12:06 am EDT (Updated Sep 22nd 2009 at 12:06 am EDT)

I was shocked as well, now on the same site it breaks down the other sources of energy as well as alternative fuel vehicles in which they are #1. See California energy data below the state rankings, they certainly are a huge energy user and a huge alternative energy producer.

The source I quoted was:


Rank States Amount (In Barrels)
# 1 Texas: 256,552,000
# 2 Florida: 181,062,000
# 3 New York: 133,723,000
# 4 Illinois: 121,126,000
# 5 Pennsylvania: 120,457,000
# 6 Michigan: 119,471,000
# 7 North Carolina: 98,717,000
# 8 New Jersey: 94,145,000
# 9 Virginia: 90,793,000
# 10 Indiana: 75,199,000
# 11 Tennessee: 68,391,000
# 12 Massachusetts: 65,358,000
# 13 Washington: 63,492,000
# 14 Minnesota: 62,235,000
# 15 Maryland: 59,262,000
# 16 Wisconsin: 58,869,000
# 17 Arizona: 58,506,000
# 18 Alabama: 57,717,000
# 19 South Carolina: 53,821,000
# 20 Louisiana: 53,481,000
# 21 Kentucky: 51,267,000
# 22 Colorado: 49,635,000
# 23 Oklahoma: 43,026,000
# 24 Iowa: 36,767,000
# 25 Mississippi: 36,481,000
# 26 Oregon: 36,157,000
# 27 Connecticut: 35,436,000
# 28 California: 35,198,000
# 29 Arkansas: 33,245,000
# 30 Kansas: 30,296,000
# 31 Utah: 22,992,000
# 32 Nevada: 22,876,000
# 33 New Mexico: 21,654,000
# 34 Nebraska: 20,392,000
# 35 West Virginia: 19,716,000
# 36 New Hampshire: 16,101,000
# 37 Idaho: 15,098,000
# 38 Maine: 14,289,000
# 39 Ohio: 12,145,000
# 40 Montana: 11,639,000
# 41 Georgia: 11,355,000
# 42 South Dakota: 10,203,000
# 43 Hawaii: 9,709,000
# 44 Rhode Island: 9,616,000
# 45 Delaware: 9,298,000
# 46 North Dakota: 8,477,000
# 47 Wyoming: 8,101,000
# 48 Missouri: 7,251,000
# 49 Alaska: 6,383,000
# 50 District of Columbia: 3,889,000
# 51 Vermont: 802,000
Total: 2,541,871,000

Source for California Data (a little easy to decipher):


Alternative Fuel Vehicles 73,103 [1st of 51]
Coal Consumption 2,834,000 [33rd of 51]
Ethanol Consumption 2,211,000 [5th of 51]
Gas Price Average > Diesel $3.27 [2nd of 51]
Gas Price Average > Regular $3.21 [2nd of 51]
Gasoline Consumption 35,198,000 [28th of 51]
Natural Gas Consumption 2,464,565 [2nd of 51]
Nuclear Energy 33,219 [7th of 51]
Nuclear Energy > List of nuclear reactors
*Diablo Canyon 1 - 12 MI WSW of San Luis Obispo; owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. *Diablo Canyon 2 - 12 MI WSW of San Luis Obispo; owned by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. *San Onofre 2 - 4 MI SE of San Clemente; owned by Southern California Edison Co. *San Onofre 3 - 4 MI SE of San Clemente; owned by Southern California Edison Co.
Oil Consumption 656,863,000 [2nd of 51]
Photovoltaic & Solar Thermal Energy Consumption 23,311 [2nd of 51]
Residential Prices > Wood $5.62 [8th of 50]
State Energy Program and Special Projects- Expenditures $4,011,000.00 [1st of 51]
Total Electricity Consumption 235,438 [2nd of 51]
Total Energy Consumption 7,853,442 [2nd of 51]
Total Renewable Energy Consumption 735,284 [1st of 51]
Total Renewable Energy Produced 31,714 [1st of 51]
Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons- Expenditures $4,238,000.00 [10th of 51]
Wind Energy Electricity Production 35,606 [1st of 51]
Wind power > % to total 2.8% [11th of 20]

Eroneous California Data

By Mike Collins Sep 22nd 2009 at 10:41 am EDT (Updated Sep 22nd 2009 at 10:41 am EDT)

I was shocked by the initial data on California, it turns out that the state uses 370 million barrels of gasoline/ 15.540 billion gallons. A substantial amount above Texas consumption.


State Commercial Industrial Transportation Total
Alabama 44 1,278 60,795 62,116
Alaska 95 112 6,740 6,947
Arizona 40 1,202 64,005 65,247
Arkansas 104 1,257 33,266 34,627
California 271 5,720 370,074 376,065
Colorado 41 1,401 49,381 50,822
Connecticut 328 634 42,778 43,740
Delaware 6 132 9,927 10,065
District of Columbia 178 133 3,208 3,590
Florida 281 2,875 198,544 201,700
Georgia 68 2,811 117,868 120,747
Hawaii 12 169 10,560 10,741
Idaho 16 703 14,250 14,969
Illinois 397 2,714 122,255 125,366
Indiana 262 1,530 75,371 77,163
Iowa 1,010 1,698 36,737 39,444
Kansas 81 1,289 30,444 31,814
Kentucky 42 2,196 53,029 55,267
Louisiana 1,472 1,497 52,774 55,744
Maine 25 281 16,698 17,005
Maryland 33 1,037 62,543 63,612
Massachusetts 70 969 67,202 68,240
Michigan 191 2,308 116,465 118,964
Minnesota 52 1,400 63,250 64,802
Mississippi 38 1,415 37,752 39,205
Missouri 236 2,254 74,549 77,038
Montana 15 681 11,227 11,923
Nebraska 203 1,304 19,332 20,840
Nevada 16 568 25,465 26,049
New Hampshire 12 364 16,698 17,074
New Jersey 72 1,211 102,497 103,779
New Mexico 77 755 22,416 23,248
New York 197 2,145 135,045 137,387
North Carolina 1,461 1,966 101,984 105,411
North Dakota 10 717 7,875 8,602
Ohio 538 2,408 121,918 124,864
Oklahoma 195 1,691 43,517 45,403
Oregon 31 1,041 35,746 36,817
Pennsylvania 205 1,823 122,531 124,559
Rhode Island 12 104 8,993 9,108
South Carolina 35 1,061 60,595 61,692
South Dakota 12 829 9,547 10,388
Tennessee 53 1,217 71,696 72,966
Texas 178 6,023 269,516 275,717
Utah 24 591 24,129 24,743
Vermont 7 237 8,164 8,407
Virginia 126 1,744 92,953 94,823
Washington 86 1,272 62,943 64,301
West Virginia 28 413 19,900 20,341
Wisconsin 86 1,679 59,363 61,128
Wyoming 240 532 7,196 7,968
United States 9,310 71,389 3,251,811 3,332,579
Data may not sum to totals due to rounding.