Freight Facts and Figures 2009

Figure 5-1. Energy Consumption by Freight Transportation Mode: 2007

In 2007, trucking accounted for two-thirds of freight transportation energy consumption. Water was a distant second with roughly one-sixth of freight energy consumption.

 

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Data represented in the figure.

Table in Excel format

Trillions of Btus

	1980	1990	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Truck (thousand gallons)	2,768	3,397	4,886	4,879	5,104	4,535	4,455	5,028	(R) 5,130	5,209
Class I Rail (Distillate/diesel fuel) (million gallons)	541	432	513	515	517	531	563	568	581	563
Water (thousand gallons)	1,677	1,396	1,414	1,218	1,149	1,026	1,182	1,211	1,280	1,367
Pipeline (natural gas only) (million cubic feet)	654	680	662	644	688	610	584	602	(R) 602	642

Key: R = revised; Btu = British thermal unit.

Note:

Data do not include energy consumed by oil pipelines (crude petroleum and petroleum products) nor coal slurry/water slurry pipelines.

Sources:

Highway: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, (Washington, DC: annual issues), table VM-1, available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2007/ as of April 20, 2009.

Rail: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: annual issues), p. 40.

Water: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales (Washington, DC: 2008), tables 2, 4, and similar tables in earlier editions; U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: annual issues), table MF-24, available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2007/ as of April 20, 2009.

Pipeline: U.S. Department of Energy, Natural Gas Annual 2007, DOE/EIA-0131(04) (Washington, DC: January 2009), table 15 and similar tables in earlier editions.

 

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