That is wrong. Very little oil or oil products is used to generate electricity in the US. Most of what is used is refinery "leftovers", residual oil and petroleum coke.
Your cute little pic most conveniently left out a HUGE source of fuel for power plants: That’s right, OIL! The very common turbine power generation plants use good old oil.
Nope. Oil makes up 1% of our electricity production. You are thinking of natural gas turbines.
The EIA is from the government, and it's here to set you straight (emphasis added):
What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?
In 2013, the United States generated about 4,058 billion kilowatthours of electricity. About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuel (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), with 39% attributed from coal.
In 2013, energy sources and percent share of total electricity generation were
- Coal 39%
- Natural Gas 27%
- Nuclear 19%
- Hydropower 7%
- Other Renewable 6%
- Biomass 1.48%
- Geothermal 0.41%
- Solar 0.23%
- Wind 4.13%
- Petroleum 1%
- Other Gases < 1%
Generally speaking, oil is too valuable to use for electricity generation.
The surprising number to me is that wind accounted for anywhere near as much as 4.13%. And also that hydro is only 7%.
That is wrong. Very little oil or oil products is used to generate electricity in the US. Most of what is used is refinery "leftovers", residual oil and petroleum coke.