Petroleum imports grew by 5.7 million barrels per day (87 billion gallons per year).
The initial capacity has been reduced from 10 to 4 million gallons per year.
In 2007 annual gasoline consumption was about 140 billion gallons per year, with forecasts of rising demand.
From 2000 to 2010, U.S. corn-based ethanol production increased from 1.6 to 13.2 billion gallons per year.
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The bill also includes a provision to increase biofuel production to 36 billion gallons per year by 2022.
Congress has mandated that ethanol blended into U.S. gasoline will increase to 35 billion gallons per year by 2022.
The bill includes a provision to essentially quintuple the amount of renewable motor fuels to 36 billion gallons per year by 2020.
Virent Energy Systems has built a demonstration plant that can turn beet sugar into gasoline at a rate of 10, 000 gallons per year.
Congressional mandates, moreover, have decreed that by 2022, biofuels blended into the U.S. gasoline stock will increase to 35 billion gallons per year.
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Per capita consumption of soda in the US, for example, has declined from around 54 gallons per year in 1998 to 44 gallons today.
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At one train a week, that's five million fewer gallons per year, and Railex is confident it can fill up to five on the Washington-to-New York line.
However, the plants that were able to stay in business increased production from under 200 million gallons per year in 1980 to 900 million gallons in 1990.
Global oil production is nearly a trillion gallons per year.
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We burn 140 billion gallons of gasoline per year, and it would take more like 210 billion gallons of ethanol to drive as far.
The U.S. burns 140 billion gallons of gasoline per year, and it would take more like 210 billion gallons of ethanol to drive as far.
Average Americans consume nearly 53 gallons of soda per year, which is nearly 49 pounds of pure sugar!
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority claims that its E-ZPass system reduces delays for all drivers by 85% and saves 1.2 million gallons of fuel per year.
According to the National Resources Defense Council, impervious spaces in the built environment generate 10 trillion gallons of untreated runoff per year.
Americans drank fewer than two gallons of bottled water per year, and almost all of that was in the form of water from big office coolers .
The savings? 9, 500 gallons of jet fuel per year.
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Weight gain of passengers in noncommercial vehicles could account for nearly 1 billion gallons of gasoline consumed per year in the United States from 1960 to 2002, Allstate says in an infographic accompanying its blog post.
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The Administration proposes to increase the tax that oil companies pay to finance the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund from 8 cents per barrel (per 42 gallons) to 9 cents per barrel starting this year.
"Not just the cars that aren't idling at traffic lights, but starting from a dead stop takes up more fuel also, so we are saving thousands of gallons of fuel per roundabout per year, " says the Republican mayor.
Britain uses 40 litres (8.8 gallons) of paint per person every year, for example, yet the figure for China is still only one-tenth of that.
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But the bigger problem lies in framing soda taxes in terms of average consumption, such as 45 gallons of sugared drinks per person per year or the NHANES average of 203 kilocalories per person per day.
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For the record, here in bike-riding, Prius-loving, 47-square-mile San Francisco, per person gasoline consumption is 57 gallons a year.
Jodie Marcyniuk, a transit priority engineer at Calgary Transit, notes that each of its transmitter-equipped buses saves 2, 000 gallons of fuel and nearly 50, 000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year compared with buses on regular routes. (The calculations do not net out the extra gallons idled away by drivers on the cross streets.) "It works out beautifully, " says Marcyniuk.
It will help construct a refinery to convert 600, 000 tons of energy grasses per year into an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest.
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