Energy Myths

The Manhattan Institute has released the results of a poll conducted on 1,000 Americans regarding facts about energy and American consumption thereof.

Some highlights:

• As of February, 68% of Americans believe that the majority of US energy comes from oil. This is up from 63.2% in September 2006. In reality, oil accounts for 40% of US energy, mostly in the trnasportation sector of energy consumption, though it also accounts for a healthy portion of heat generation.


• 54.6% of Americans think tha Saudi Arabia supplies most of the oil the US consumes. In reality, most of the oil the US consumes comes from the Americas, with the highest exporter or oil to the US being . . . (wait for it) . . . Canada. Here's the breakdown:
  
  

  Rank	Country	Barrels per day	% of imports	% of total consumption
  1	Canada	2,181,000	15.9	10.5
  2	Mexico	1,662,000	12.1	8.0
  3	Saudi Arabia	1,537,000	11.2	7.4
  4	Venezuela	1,529,000	11.1	7.4
  5	Nigeria	1,166,000	8.5	5.6
  6	Iraq	531,000	3.9	2.6
  7	Algeria	478,000	3.5	2.3
  8	Angola	473,000	3.4	2.3
  9	Russia	410,000	3.0	2.0
  10	United Kingdom	396,000	2.9	2.0
  11	Virgin Islands	328,000	2.4	1.6
  12	Ecuador	283,000	2.1	1.4
  13	Kuwait	243,000	1.8	1.2
  14	Norway	233,000	1.7	1.1
  15	Colombia	196,000	1.4	1.0

  
  
  
  

  Source	Barrels per day	% of imports	% of total consumption
  Persian Gulf nations	2,334,000	17.0	11.2
  OPEC nations	5,587,000	40.7	26.9
  Non-OPEC nations	8,127,000	59.3	39.1
  Western Hemisphere nations	6,779,000	49.4	32.6
  Western Hemisphere incl U.S.	13,867,000	n/a	66.7

  
  

The whole report is interesting and is easy to skim.

HT: Reason Hit and Run