The Oil Drum: Wherein Lies the Military?

Where does the military fit into the picture of overall oil consumption?

In answering this, I linked to something that had old data, but which suggests that some of the military’s consumption is actually folded into the general US numbers reported by the EIA. For example, bases and operations in the US are reported as part of the total US consumption (e.g. the 9,105,000 barrels/day of US motor gasoline consumption includes military consumption). This sentiment seems to be confirmed by a story in the Monthly Energy Review, which exhaustively details what the DOE means by the different sectors that they report on (residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, and electric power). Note that this story discusses all energy use, not just oil/petroleum.

More after the jump at The Oil Drum.