Petroleum Products are easily recognized in the gasoline we use to
fuel our cars and the heating oil we use to warm our homes. Lesser
known uses of petroleum-based components are plastics, medicines,
food items, and a host of other products.
There are three major categories for Pertoleum Based Products:
Fuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel
Non-Fuel products such as solvents and lubricating oils
Feedstocks such as naphtha
Petroleum products, especially motor gasoline, distillate (diesel)
fuel, and jet fuel, provide virtually all of the energy consumed in
the transportation sector. Transportation is the greatest single use
of petroleum, accounting for over 67 percent of all U.S. petroleum
consumed in 2005. The industrial sector is the second largest
petroleum consuming sector and accounts for about 24 percent of all
petroleum consumption in the U.S. Residential/Commercial and the
electric utility sectors account for the remaining 9 percent of
petroleum consumption.
Demand for petroleum products in the United States averaged 20.8
million barrels per day in 2005. This represents about 3 gallons of
petroleum each day for every person in the country. By comparison,
petroleum demand averaged about 2 gallons per person per day in the
early 1950's and nearly 3.6 gallons per person per day in 1978....

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