id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1191 Energy in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 9425 1320 70 Energy in the United States comes mostly from fossil fuels: in 2010, data showed that 25% of the nation's energy originates from petroleum, 22% from coal, and 22% from natural gas. This difference was largely met through imports.[8] Not included is the significant amount of energy used overseas in the production of retail and industrial goods consumed in the United States. The 1973 oil embargo precipitated an energy crisis in the United States.[9][10] In 2007, coal consumption was the highest it has ever been, with it mostly being used to generate electricity.[11] Natural gas has replaced coal as the preferred source of heating in homes, businesses, and industrial furnaces, which burns cleaner and is easier to transport.[citation needed] Electricity consumption per capita is based upon data mined from US DOE Energy Information Administration/Electric Power Annual 2018 files[58] Population[59] data is from Demographics of the United States. The following tables summarize the electrical energy generated by fuel source for the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1191.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1191.txt