Petroleum products include transportation fuels, fuel oils for heating and electricity generation, asphalt and road oil, and feedstocks for making the chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials that are in nearly everything we use. In 2019, of the approximately 7.5 billion barrels of total U.S. petroleum consumption, 45% was finished motor gasoline (includes fuel ethanol), 20% was distillate fuel (heating oil and diesel fuel made from crude oil and biomass-based diesel fuel), and 8% was jet fuel. Over 13 other types of petroleum products made up the other 27% of total petroleum consumption in 2019.
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Last updated: September 29, 2020