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the average in the United States is anywhere from twenty point five to twenty three point six million barrels a day

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 2 (WMTW)

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Why we checked itSpecific figures cited for average U.S. daily oil consumption/production used to argue that 100 million gallons released would last less than a week — verifiable against EIA data and also involves a unit mismatch (gallons vs barrels) that could be misleading
What we foundThe lower bound of the claimed range (20.5 million b/d) is broadly consistent with EIA data for recent years, but the upper bound of 23.6 million b/d is well above any recorded or projected U.S. petroleum consumption figure.
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