Transportation Energy Consumption

  Over the last four year, gasoline prices and transportation energy consumption jumped to record highs, causing Americans to stay at home and rethink their  love affair with the automobile. During 2009: Fuel prices were down 40 percent and automobile associations and auto groups started forecasting that trips by automobile will increase by 2.9 percent over the previous  year, increasing from 26.3 million people hitting the road to over 27 million.

   The cold hard facts that fuel and gas prices are slowly going in the direction of $4.00 a gallon again for the summer of 2010 has many people wondering what to plan for summer vacations.

Only time will tell if Americans are again ready  to spend the big bucks and head out on the highway for a vacation.

Our urge to hit the road with somewhat lower gas prices has not curbed our desire or changed our habits to use less fuel.

GAS PRICES ARE PROJECTED TO CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGH 2011

   The federal Energy Information Administration recently announced that over the four weeks that ended May 22 2009, U.S.  Transportation energy consumption demand for gasoline averaged about 9.2 million barrels a day, an increase of only 0.4 percent from the same period last year.  During the summer of 2008, when gas prices were over $4.00 a gallon people had to re think when they would drive  and now as the summer of 2010 is close at hand, gas prices are back on the rise, the national average retail price of gasoline has risen nearly 40 cents per gallon to $3.03 . Experts and oil futures traders  expect  energy consumption demand to continue to trickel up over the next six months, and are counting on americans ability to waste gas not changing any time soon.

With our love affair and reliance of personal transportation, the need to reduce transportation energy consumption will become a major concern in the very near future.

To help reduce transportation energy consumption you need to look at:

5.    Making mass transportation a choice.