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The Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) is a national area-probability sample survey that collects energy-related data for occupied primary housing units. The survey collected data from 4,381 households in housing units statistically energy consumption, 2005 selected to represent the 11.1 milion housing units in the United States. United States household The fuel oil used by American households for The fuel oil used by American households for The electricity used by American households for ONE MINUTE would fill one 15 ft. by 30 ft. swimming pool Roughly 11,800 gallons ONE DAY would fill one Oil tanker ship ONE DAY is equal to The electricity used by Albania for Roughly 172 million About 3.5 trillion kilowatt hours gallons ONE YEAR ALBANIA Comparing Fuels used nationally in 2005 by expenditures and consumption by physical units Dollars in billions $201 $53 $13 $11 $0.2 n/a Electricity Natural Gas Fuel Oil Kerosene LPG Wood 1,275 billion kWh (kilowatt hours) 4,655 billion cf (cubic feet by volume) 6,237 million gallons 127 million gallons 5,742 million gallons 21.4 million cords (8 ft. by 4 ft. stacked) Comparing Energy End Uses in 2005 by average dollars per household and Btu consumption Btu = (British Thermal Units) $647 $534 $276 $291 $137 Space Heating Air conditioning Water Heating Refrigerators Other appliances 40.5 million Btu 9.6 million Btu 19.2 million Btu 4.6 million Btu 24.7million Btu Sources: Energy Information Administration - 2005 Residential Energy Consumption Survey: Energy Consumption and Expenditures Tables, Nationmaster.com, Wikipedia.com