Bureaucratic Incompetence

Oil, that is
Black gold
Texas tea
--Flatt and Scruggs

In the midst of skyrocketing gasoline prices and the administration's release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Secretary of Energy is unable to answer what should be simple question for a person in her position: How many barrels of crude does the US consume daily?

Representative example of the bureaucratic incompetence engulfing this administration. 

btw, a useful repository of energy supply/demand info can be found in BP's annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Turn to p.23 of the 2021 edition to view US daily oil consumption for the past 10 yrs.