Full Title: Summary Quadrennial Energy Review: Transforming U.S. Energy Infrastructures in a Time of Rapid Change: The First Installment of the QER
Author(s): Department of Energy
Publisher(s): Department of Energy
Publication Date: April 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
The U.S. energy landscape is changing. The United States has become the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas combined. The country is less dependent on foreign oil, as a percentage of national oil consumption, than it has been since 1971. Current cars can go farther on a gallon of gas than ever before. Between 2005 and 2014, U.S. consumption of motor gasoline fell 2.6 percent despite population growth of 7.6 percent and gross domestic product growth of 13.0 percent. Additionally, as a result of changes in economic structure and conditions and policies to promote energy efficiency, U.S. electricity consumption was flat over that 10-year period and total energy use declined by 1.9 percent.