Gasoline Usage

It was recently reported that Americans drove six billion fewer miles over a six-month period. There are 245 million motor vehicles in the US, of which 155 million are cars. If we consider both cars and trucks, the average mileage is about 17 mpg. So the average vehicle drove about 24 miles less over the six-month period and saved a little under 1-1/2 gal of gas.

Other statistics:

Americans used about 136 billion gallons of gas last year or about 550 gal/vehicle.
They also used about 7 billion gallons of ethanol.