The data describes the motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil consumption by the transportation sector in the U.S. from 1992 through 2017. In 2017, the U.S. transportation sector consumed nearly three million barrels of distillate fuel oil daily.
Gasoline and fuel oil and diesel consumption in the United States
The transportation sector, which includes public and personal transportation by road vehicles, airplanes, trains and ships, is the second biggest energy-consuming sector in the U.S.
Distillate fuel can be used as either a fuel oil or a diesel fuel.
