This table provides detailed information about American and global energy consumption since 1960.
Data appear in both million barrels per day.
In terms of historical context, note that the U.S. share of oil consumption has fallen relative to the world total since 1960. Another interesting feature of the data is that peak consumption arrived in the late 1970's in the United States. The conversion factor to Quads is 365 million barrels of oil is 2.117 Quads. Or in other words, 5.8 Quads equals 1 Billion barrels of oil. View the preceding image here .