Energy consumption by U.S. government at lowest level since at least 1975

The U.S. federal government, with thousands of facilities and vehicles in locations across the United States and abroad, is one of the largest energy consumers in the world, but that consumption is declining. The Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program shows total delivered-to-site energy use by the federal government fell to 0.96 quadrillion Btu in FY 2013, the lowest since 1975, the earliest year for which data are available. More »