US oil imports have risen by 50% since 1980, with nearly 60% imported in 2009. Texas is the largest oil-consuming state, using over a billion barrels annually, and the US consumes more oil per day than Europe. Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the US are the top oil-producing nations.
US oil imports have increased about 50% since 1980. In the early 1980s, the US imported about 40% of the oil it consumed; by 2009, that amount had risen to nearly 60 percent. In 2007, the United States consumed more than 20.6 million barrels of oil per day, more than double the amount consumed by China, the second largest oil consumer.
Further information on oil consumption:
The US state that consumes the most barrels of oil a year is Texas, which uses more than a billion barrels of oil a year. That’s more than the next two major oil-consuming states, California and Florida, combined.
The top oil-producing nations are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States, each producing between 8 and 10 million barrels of oil per day.
The United States consumes more barrels of oil per day than all of Europe.
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