The United States Energy Information Administration recently released data on jet fuel consumption across the United States in 2019. It’s not just United States-based airlines drinking all this jet fuel. International airlines that fly in and out of the United States also refuel there. Their consumption contributes to the total. //

Unsurprisingly, jet fuel consumption was highest at the biggest airports in the most populous states. Aircraft flying in and out of California, home to Los Angeles and San Francisco Airports, consumed 106.2 million barrels of jet fuel in 2019. That’s 16.7% of the national total that year and almost double that of the closest runner up – Texas.

Aircraft passing through airports in Texas went through 58 million barrels of jet fuel in 2019. Rounding out the top five states are Florida, where aircraft drank 57 million barrels of jet fuel; New York, where 54 million barrels of jet fuel were used up; and Illinois, where airplanes got through 33 million barrels of jet fuel.