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We found that water is consumed at a rate of 2.8-6.6 liters for each liter of gasoline produced for more than 90% of crude oil obtained from conventional onshore sources in the U.S. and more than half of crude oil imported from Saudi Arabia. For more than 55% of crude oil from Canadian oil sands, about 5.2 liters of water are consumed for each liter of gasoline produced.

Source: May Wu et al. Environ Manage. 2009 Nov.

In 2020, about 123.49 billion gallons (or about 2.94 billion barrels1) of finished motor gasoline were consumed in the United States, an average of about 337 million gallons per day (or about 8.03 million barrels per day).

Source: EIA

Simple math (assuming 5.2L water/L gasoline) yielded 642 billion gallons of water consumed for the gallons of gasoline consumed in the USA in 2020.

Is Li mining or gasoline production the water hog?