U.S. Energy Consumption - the Big Picture
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), [link] an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy, was created expressly to track American energy statistics. A visitor to their website will find thousands of tables, graphs and reports covering various aspects of energy supply, prices and consumption patterns.
The goal of this article is to focus on the EIA’s consumption data, distilling it into a few graphs that should give even the most rushed reader a basic understanding of the layout of the American energy landscape.