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In reply to the discussion: The price of gasoline: Do we try and explain this to Americans or let them find out the hard way? [View all]NickB79
(19,233 posts)Your blogger states that 1138 trillion BTU of total energy was used by the Dept. of Defense in 2009, of which 76% is from oil-derived fuels and the majority of that being jet fuel (kerosene).
So, 76% of 1138 trillion BTU's is roughly 864 trillion BTU's. If we simplify things by just assuming it's all jet fuel (which would work in your favor) and one gallon of jet fuel has 128,000 BTU's per gallon, that works out to 6.75 billion gallons burned per year. A barrel of oil is 42 gallons, so that breaks down to 160 million barrels of fuel per year.
The US as a whole uses approximately 7 BILLION barrels of oil per year, so the percentage comes up at approximately 2.2% of total US oil consumption burned by the military.
Sorry, but you're wrong and the graph at the blog you linked to actually confirms you are wrong.