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A barrel of oil can produce 42 gallons of gasoline. If the US could cut reduce consumption by 1 billion gallons of gasoline, that would translate to 24 million barrels of oil. Update: Commenter Tom asks whether drilling, transportation, refining and distribution are accounted for in the estimate.
Source: There's a Lot of Life in a Barrel of Oil (3KB) , American Petroleum Institute, 2006. Note: ProCon.org converted the American Petroleum Institute's 2005 data from gallons per barrel to percentages of total US crude oil consumption.