COLTURA – Using new gasoline consumption data to lift the most gasoline-burdened Americans and cut gasoline use faster and more efficiently. “The top 10% of drivers in the U.S. account for more than one-third of the nation’s gasoline use for private light-duty vehicles, according to the report. Extreme levels of gasoline use are deeply woven into American society. The US burns 370 million gallons of gasoline every day – three times more than China and far more than any other country. Gasoline use causes one-sixth of US carbon emissions and costs US households more than $450 billion a year. Gasoline use is not going down nearly fast enough to meet climate goals. Driving America’s stratospheric gasoline use are drivers in the top 10% in terms of their gasoline consumption (“Gasoline Superusers”). Superusers collectively use 35% of all gasoline used in private light-duty vehicles (LDVs) and individually spend on average 10% of their household income (on average $530 per month) to purchase it. The 21 million US Gasoline Superusers make up just 0.24% of the world’s population, but they use 10.4% of the world’s gasoline – nearly as much as all of China. This report reveals what a new dataset tells us about Americans’ consumption of gasoline. It shows in granular detail:

• How geography, income, vehicle type, and demography correlate with the volume of gasoline a person uses;
• The financial burden of gasoline purchasing on the people who use the most gasoline; and
• The outsized climate and social equity benefits from converting the drivers
  who use the most gasoline to EVs…”