Table 4. Total Energy Expenditures in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997
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| | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- |
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| | | | | | | for |
| | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal |
| | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- |
| Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 |
|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE
| | | | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |Factors
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Million Households
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Total U.S. Households....... 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7
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Number of Households, Fuels |
Used (more than one may |
apply): |
Electricity2.............. 101.4 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.7
Natural Gas............... 61.9 8.0 17.0 19.0 17.9 9.1 20.4 | 4.3
Fuel Oil.................. 10.0 1.3 2.5 3.2 3.0 1.4 3.4 | 10.4
Kerosene.................. 3.5 0.4 1.2 1.2 0.6 0.6 1.4 | 14.5
LPG....................... 8.1 1.0 2.4 2.7 1.9 1.2 2.8 | 12.7
Wood...................... 15.0 0.7 3.0 4.7 6.7 1.1 3.0 | 9.4
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Billion Dollars
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Total Expenditures, Fuels |
Used: |
Electricity............... 88.33 8.36 21.92 26.61 31.43 10.29 24.79 | 3.4
Natural Gas............... 35.81 3.74 8.82 11.17 12.08 4.35 10.54 | 5.4
Fuel Oil.................. 7.11 0.66 1.52 2.21 2.73 0.69 1.97 | 12.1
Kerosene.................. 0.50 0.08 0.19 0.18 0.06 0.12 0.22 | 23.4
LPG....................... 4.04 0.43 1.20 1.39 1.02 0.50 1.34 | 14.8
Total..................... 135.79 13.26 33.65 41.56 47.33 15.95 38.86 | 2.9
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Dollars per Household3
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Total Expenditures per |
Household, Fuels Used: |
Electricity............... 871 630 752 855 1,126 703 728 | 2.3
Natural Gas............... 579 469 518 589 673 476 516 | 3.0
Fuel Oil.................. 714 505 603 699 914 498 576 | 5.3
Kerosene.................. 144 192 149 147 99 185 163 | 19.6
LPG....................... 500 412 493 518 531 433 482 | 8.6
Total..................... 1,338 997 1,155 1,335 1,696 1,088 1,140 | 1.6
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Dollars per Million Btu3
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Average Price of Btu |
Consumption, Fuels Used: |
Electricity............... 24.97 25.05 24.70 24.63 25.44 25.04 25.16 | 1.3
Natural Gas............... 6.78 7.06 6.76 6.78 6.72 6.86 6.88 | 1.6
Fuel Oil.................. 7.05 6.22 6.87 7.03 7.42 6.16 6.66 | 1.5
Kerosene.................. 8.51 8.58 8.54 8.41 8.61 8.68 8.64 | 1.7
LPG....................... 11.23 11.36 11.18 10.66 12.12 11.33 11.42 | 2.8
Total..................... 13.25 13.05 13.23 13.01 13.55 13.12 13.15 | 1.8
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See footnotes at end of table.
Table 4. Total Energy Expenditures in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997 (Continued)
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| | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- |
| |_______________________________________| | gible |
| | | | | | | for |
| | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal |
| | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- |
| Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 |
|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE
| | | | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |Factors
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Price per Physical Unit3
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Average Price of Physical |
Units of Consumption, Fuels |
Used: |
Electricity (cents per |
kWh)...................... 8.5 8.5 8.4 8.4 8.7 8.5 8.6 | 1.3
Natural Gas (dollars per |
thousand cf).............. 6.96 7.25 6.94 6.96 6.90 7.04 7.07 | 1.6
Fuel Oil (dollars per |
gallon)................... 0.98 0.86 0.95 0.98 1.03 0.85 0.92 | 1.5
Kerosene (dollars per |
gallon)................... 1.15 1.16 1.15 1.14 1.16 1.17 1.17 | 1.7
LPG (dollars per gallon).. 1.03 1.04 1.02 0.97 1.11 1.03 1.04 | 2.8
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Million Households
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Number of Households, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating4............ 99.7 12.8 28.5 30.7 27.6 14.0 33.0 | 2.8
Electric Air-Conditioning5 72.6 8.1 19.3 23.1 22.2 8.3 20.9 | 3.6
Water Heating6............ 100.8 13.0 29.0 31.0 27.7 14.4 33.7 | 2.8
Refrigerators............. 101.3 13.2 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.8
Appliances................ 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7
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Billion Dollars
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Total Expenditures, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating............. 42.03 4.33 10.78 13.12 13.79 4.73 12.20| 3.3
Electric Air-Conditioning. 10.20 0.91 2.39 2.86 4.04 1.00 2.48| 6.1
Water Heating............. 19.76 2.08 5.22 6.14 6.33 2.71 6.40| 3.0
Refrigerators............. 12.14 1.36 3.15 3.55 4.07 1.52 3.61| 3.2
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 51.66 4.58 12.10 15.89 19.10 5.99 14.18| 3.2
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Dollars per Household3
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Total Expenditures per |
Household, Where the End Use |
Is: |
Space Heating............. 421 338 378 427 499 338 370 | 2.6
Electric Air-Conditioning. 140 113 124 124 182 120 119 | 4.8
Water Heating............. 196 160 180 198 228 189 190 | 1.8
Refrigerators............. 120 103 108 114 146 104 106 | 2.0
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 509 344 415 510 684 409 416 | 2.0
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1 Below 150 percent of poverty line or 60 percent of median State income.
2 The RECS cannot be used to accurately estimate the number of households that do not use electricity.
3 The averages for total and for appliances are over the set of all households; otherwise the averages
are over the set of households using a given fuel or over the set using a given end use.
4 Households where the main or secondary space-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas, fuel oil,
kerosene, or LPG.
5 The number of households, where the end use is electric air-conditioning, does not include households
that did not use their equipment (0.9 million). It does include the small number of households where the
fuel for central air-conditioning equipment was something other than electricity; those households were
treated as if the fuel was electricity.
6 Households where the main or secondary water-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas, fuel oil,
kerosene, or LPG.
Notes: • To obtain the RSE percentage for any table cell, multiply the corresponding column and row
factors. • Because of rounding, data may not sum to totals. • See "Glossary" for definition of terms
used in this report.
Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Forms EIA-457 A-G of
the 1997 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
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