The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

The Independent Student Newspaper of Northern Kentucky University.

The Northerner

By The Numbers: Oil

$2.70 is the average price of a gallon of gas in the United States, with $2.62 the average price in Ohio.

25% of all the world’s known oil reserves are in Saudi Arabia, which supplies the United States with 1.5 million barrels of crude oil each day.

20.73 million barrels of oil were consumed each day in America in 2004, with 13.15 million barrels imported each day.

Source: Energy Information Agency