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Environment & Energy

Spider Jerusalem

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4. The US military uses 360K barrels of oil per day.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 29, 2014, 09:16 PM

Jul 2014

Total US use of oil is around 18 million barrels per day. The US military may be the largest institutional user of petroleum, but the total used is still an insignificant fraction of total US consumption.

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