{"id":6067,"date":"2015-02-27T07:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T12:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2015-02-27T07:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T12:08:47","slug":"how-much-crude-oil-do-you-consume-on-a-daily-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"How Much Crude Oil Do You Consume On A Daily Basis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Much Crude Oil Do You Consume On A Daily Basis?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Oil.\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0commodity. We know what it\u2019s worth \u2013 at least we thought we did \u2013 but what does a barrel of the black stuff get you in real life? Before we get theoretical, let\u2019s first consider how much oil you use.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in the United States, that figure is approximately 2.5 gallons of crude oil per day; roughly one barrel every seventeen days; or nearly 22 barrels per year. That\u2019s just your share of US total\u00a0consumption<\/a>\u00a0of course; the true number is harder to discern \u2013 minus industrial and non-residential\u00a0uses<\/a>, daily consumption drops to about 1.5 gallons per person per day. Subtract the\u00a0percentage\u00a0<\/a>of the population aged 14 and below and the daily consumption climbs back above 2 gallons. This is big picture, and it\u2019s quite variable, so let\u2019s go further.<\/p>\n

Most of the nation\u2019s daily crude consumption stems from transportation. If you\u2019re an average\u00a0driver\u00a0<\/a>in an average\u00a0car<\/a>, your crude consumption is in the order of 12 barrels per year. However, if your car is more than ten years old, chances are that figure is closer to 15 barrels annually. Does an electric car offer significant savings? Of course it does, but for an unconventional comparison let\u2019s assume all of the electricity is sourced from oil \u2013 in truth, petroleum is not a very efficient fuel and\u00a0accounts<\/a>\u00a0for just 1 percent of electricity generation in the US. Under this assumption, a Tesla Model S, with an 85 kilowatt-hour (kWh)battery<\/a>\u00a0and a range of 260 miles, will consume approximately 8 barrels of crude per year.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0The World\u2019s 10 Biggest Energy Gluttons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Frequent flyer? Say 2,000 miles per year on a US\u00a0carrier<\/a>? Add about two-thirds of a barrel of crude to your annual consumption.<\/p>\n

A 3,000-mile\u00a0cruise<\/a>\u00a0on the MS Oasis of the Seas may sound relaxing, but at roughly 4 barrels of crude per passenger, the carbon footprint alone is worth reviewing.<\/p>\n

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How Much Crude Oil Do You Consume On A Daily Basis? Oil.\u00a0The\u00a0commodity. We know what it\u2019s worth \u2013 at least we thought we did \u2013 but what does a barrel of the black stuff get you in real life? Before we get theoretical, let\u2019s first consider how much oil you use. If you\u2019re in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3818,184,588,1039,589,3817],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-crude-oil","tag-oil","tag-oil-consumption","tag-oil-demand","tag-oil-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}