Midwest Core > Missouri

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

50th Resources
9th Market
28th Infrastructure

Missouri only produces 1% of the coal it consumes. Most of the coal fueling the state's coal-fired power plants comes by rail from Wyoming, and small amounts arrive by rail and truck from several other states, primarily Illinois.

Transportation is the largest energy-consuming sector in Missouri. The state is a national transportation hub on account of its central geographic location at the intersection of the three largest rivers in North America.

state-missouri

Production trillion btu

1
Oil
0
Gas
9
Coal
4
Wind
0.00
Solar
2
Hydro
34
Biofuel
112
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-1,686
+162 Produced
1,848 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

628
Oil
259
Gas
768
Coal
81
Renewable
112
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

MO
$0.36
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires investor-owned electric utilities to increase the percentage of electricity sales from renewable resources incrementally to a minimum of 15% of total sales by 2021.

  • Requires statewide use of oxygenated motor gasoline. The St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas require additional ethanol and low vapor pressure blends, respectively.

  • Requires permits and surety for drilling oil and gas wells. There are no permit fees. Surety bonds start at $1,000 and increase for deeper wells.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

+36
6.93¢
MO
8.81¢
USA