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U.S. Distillate Fuel Oil Imports (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
  1940's 13 14 11 7 5
  1950's 6 5 7 9 9 12 14 23 41 48
  1960's 35 48 32 25 32 36 38 51 132 139
  1970's 147 153 182 392 289 155 146 250 173 193
  1980's 142 173 93 174 272 200 247 255 302 306
  1990's 278 205 216 184 203 193 230 228 210 250
  2000's 295 344 267 333 325 329 365 301

Updated on 6/26/2008
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
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