Based on data from the National Household Travel Survey, households with more vehicles not only travel more, but often put more miles on their most-used vehicle compared to households with fewer vehicles. Households with just one vehicle drove an average…
Month: April 2015 (page 2)
U.S. energy imports and exports to come into balance for first time since 1950s
Projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2015, released April 14, show the potential to eliminate net U.S. energy imports sometime between 2020 and 2030. This reflects changes in both supply and demand, as continued growth in oil and natural gas…
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook will be released later today
At 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, EIA will release the Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015), which presents long-term projections of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2040. The analysis in AEO2015 focuses on six cases: Reference, Low and High Economic Growth,…
Household spending on gasoline and public transit varies by region, income
Households in different regions of the United States have similar average combined spending on gasoline and public transit, but the composition of that spending varies significantly across regions. In 2013, the most recent year of data from the Labor Department’s…
U.S. household gasoline expenditures expected to fall in 2015
The average U.S. household expenditure on motor gasoline in 2015 is expected to be about $1,817, the lowest level in more than a decade. This level is about $700 less than average household gasoline expenditures in 2014. Actual spending can…
California’s continued drought, reduced snowpack mean lower hydropower output
Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown enacted mandatory water restrictions for the first time in the state’s history. While the executive order doesn’t directly address hydropower generation and instead focuses on water use in cities and towns, the drought…
Summer gasoline prices to be down more than $1 from last summer
U.S. drivers are projected to pay an average of $2.45/gallon (gal) for regular grade gasoline this summer (April through September), according to EIA’s Short-Term Energy and Summer Fuels Outlook released yesterday. This year’s projected average summer price is down from…
U.S. remained world’s largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2014
The United States remained the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2014, according to EIA estimates. U.S. hydrocarbon production continues to exceed that of both Russia and Saudi Arabia, the second- and third-largest producers, respectively. For…
EIA’s CBECS is the nation’s only comprehensive survey of commercial buildings
EIA’s Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey is the only nationally representative source of statistical information on energy-related characteristics, consumption, and expenditures for the nation’s 5.6 million commercial buildings. Building characteristics information from the 2012 survey is being released in stages…
EIA assesses options for processing additional U.S. light tight oil production
With the growth in U.S. production of light tight oil (LTO) in recent years, petroleum refiners in the United States have been processing greater volumes of LTO. To date, increased volumes of domestic LTO have mainly been accommodated with no-…
