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Freight Facts and Figures 2009Figure 5-1. Energy Consumption by Freight Transportation Mode: 2007In 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. Trillions of Btus
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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