The U.S. produces over 90 billion cubic feet of natural gas every day. The average home uses about 200 cubic feet per day.

This Department of Energy agency is a trove of statistics about energy use, including state-level figures and history of electricity and fuel prices. It also contains a good explanation of how gasoline prices work.

No matter where you are, it’s important to know your local power provider(s) and the state regulator that oversees power price changes.

Energy prices are heavily influenced by supply and demand.

Get to know who they are and have them show you around – this will help you get information more quickly when a crisis breaks.

This is the agency that supervises pipeline safety in the United States. Their website hosts a trove of resources including the National Pipeline Mapping System that you can use to find pipelines in your local area.

A barrel is equivalent to about 42 gallons. A company or a field’s production, or a refinery’s processing capacity, is usually measured in barrels per day.

Some of these national governments are heavily reliant on revenue from oil and therefore have formed groups – such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – to try to maintain prices at a level that will bring them plenty of profit, but that is not so high that it will depress the economies of consuming countries.