Projected US Energy Demand
Biomass consumption increases by 4.4 percent per year on average from 2007 to 2030 and makes up 22 percent of total marketed renewable energy consumption in 2030, compared with 10 percent in 2007.
Source: EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2009 (via: Dinah A. Koehler) 2008 US consumed 138 billion gallons of gasoline and 10 billion gallons of biofuels, primarily ethanol. Used in gasoline blends E10 (10/90 ethanol/gasoline), available in most states. Lesser sales of E85( 85/15 ethanol/gasoline) for specially designed flexible-fuel vehicles. Approx. 98 percent of domestic ethanol is made from corn grown in the Midwest.