Describe you think USA oil's consumption is so high?
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The US consumes so much oil partly because gas is not taxed nearly as much as it is most everywhere else. ... If taxes on gas are too low, the cost to build roads must come out of general revenues which discourages the development and sale of efficient cars.
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Crude oil and other liquids produced from fossil fuels are refined into petroleum products that people use for many different purposes. Biofuels are also used as petroleum products, mainly in mixtures with gasoline and diesel fuel.
Petroleum has historically been the largest major energy source for total annual U.S. energy consumption. We use petroleum products to propel vehicles, to heat buildings, and to produce electricity. In the industrial sector, the petrochemical industry uses petroleum as a raw material (a feedstock) to make products such as plastics, polyurethane, solvents, and hundreds of other intermediate and end-user goods.