There are strong confounding factors. Gasoline is something like half of U.S. petroleum consumption:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_snd_d_nus_mbbl_a_cur.htm

The vehicle fleet has been significantly improved in the period you are talking about:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/13/c...

So even though petroleum consumption has been flat or whatever, miles driven have expanded by ~2x:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA

I doubt it's as noticeable, but housing and appliances have also improved over that period (the average energy efficiency of newer buildings is probably the biggest effect, but better appliances and lighting probably manage to show up).