The Energy Information Administration reports that America’s energy output rose to 84 percent of total U.S. energy demand in 2013, the highest percentage in more than 25 years.
The portion of U.S. energy consumption supplied by domestic production has been increasing since 2005, when it was at its historical low point (69%). Since 2005, production of domestic resources, particularly natural gas and crude oil, has been increasing as a result of the application of technologies that can develop harder-to-produce resources. At the same time, reduced road travel, improved vehicle efficiency, and competition among fuels for electric power generation have limited consumption of petroleum and coal.
For the third year in a row, natural gas was the largest domestically produced energy resource. All told, fossil fuels (natural gas, coal, crude oil, and hydrocarbon gas liquids) accounted for more than three-quarters of total U.S. energy output.
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