The United States now imports more petroleum than it produces domestically. U.S. dependence on foreign sources for a product of such critical importance to the U.S. economy and society has prompted national security concerns.
NOTE: Petroleum products supplied is a proxy for consumption.
|Total Petroleum Products Supplied||Nov-00||Nov-01|
|Total (thousand barrels per day)||19,328||19,300|
|Total petroleum products supplied percent change from same month previous year||1.26||-0.14|
|Net Petroleum Imports||Nov-00||Nov-01|
|Total (thousand barrels per day)||10,201||10,431|
|Net petroleum imports percent change from same month previous year||12.30||2.25|
|U.S. Petroleum Production||Nov-00||Nov-01|
|Total (thousand barrels per day)||8,089||8,220|
|U.S. petroleum production percent change from same month previous year||-2.24||1.62|
NOTE: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, December 2001, Available at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/mer.