[Newfie]

Hi,

I'm working on a presentation to my church group on global warming and want to show them a chart of how energy is used in the US. I'm looking for something simple that will display on a Power Point presentation.

The charts I find have "residential, commercial, transportation" and the like, but none seem to show the "whole picture."

I would like to see something with the government and military figured into it.

The point being that we need to reduce not only our personal energy spending but our shared energy budget as well.

Any pointers to a source?

Many thanks

[pup55]

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/13199

Try this one.

[eastbay]

I see the US military is consuming (as of 2004) 144 mbbls/yr. That's 'officially' just a hair more than a weeks worth for the USA.

I have a sneaky hunch some 'usage' is underreported. Just a hunch. An empirical study would be filled with 'gaps' so we'll likely never know exactly.

[Newfie]

Yes, it seems the whole point of that article was to point out the inconsistency of oil use reporting by the military. And, does oil "bought" and consumed overseas figure into our total oil usage?

When I google something like "energy use consumption type (or sector)" I typically get:
32% industrial
29% transportation
21% Residential
18% commercial

What about government and the military????? Are they in that mix? Even if I add further descriptors to the search such as: government/military/dod, I still don't get anything useful.

I seems too obvious a question that someone has not reported on it before.

Deliberate obfuscation perchance?

[sparky]

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This could help

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40459.pdf

fuel supplies and purchase are the responsibility of the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC), under the command of the Defense LogisticsAgency (DLA),
it has the mission of purchasing fuel for all of DOD’s services and agencies,
both in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside (OCONUS)

The cost of petroleum products is a big headache for the DOD , the price keep rising
a grievously expensive item is jet fuel , the main subject of the above report

since the US dominance in conventional warfare is largely based on air supremacy
that's a big worry .
the most encouraging development of recent years has been the increased deployment of unmanned drones , they are much cheaper and it could be argued , much better at controlling the sky

a Darwinian pressure will probably occur , with increased niche specialization , appearance of predator prey relationship and the extinction of obsolete rival design such as manned observation planes

the Navy is petroleum cheap ( relatively ) due to its deployment of a large amount of nuclear reactors
as propulsion

The DOD has been going green of course , with little of value except as public relation exercise

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