Share of Oregon Transportation Consumption by Fuel Type
Transportation Fuel Consumption
Transporting people and goods made up about 26 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in 2020 – in Oregon, it was 29 percent. Oregonians consumed 2.4 billion gasoline gallon equivalents of transportation fuels in 2020 and petroleum-based products accounted for 92 percent of the total. These fuels provide power for the 3.2 million registered passenger vehicles and 8,930 trucking companies located in Oregon.
Oregonians spent almost $5.7 billion on transportation fuels in 2020, and because only 2 percent of transportation fuel consumed in Oregon is produced in Oregon, most of that money is sent to other states.16 Alternative fuel options are growing, and many of these fuels could be produced in Oregon, offering an opportunity to capture greater economic benefit to the state.
1,265,440,694 – Total gasoline consumed in Oregon (2020)
0 – Total gasoline produced in Oregon (2020)
How Our Transportation Fuel Gets to Us
The Pacific Northwest has no crude oil resources and is isolated from the nation’s major petroleum production regions in Texas, North Dakota, and Alberta, Canada. Because of this lack of resources and the added cost of getting the crude here, the region pays more for transportation fuels than many parts of the country.
The maps below show where our transportation fuels originate, where they are transported through pipelines, and then moved across the country through rail and vessel transport.
