Take the country’s five most crowded major cities: 2013 gas consumption was 110 gallons per person per year in New York City, 215 in San Francisco, 188 in Boston, 206 in Chicago, and 168 in Philadelphia, well below the national average of 349 gallons a year. The figure was 434 in Charlotte, 520 in Dallas, 556 in Kansas City, 582 in Houston, and 687 in Orlando.
