That's actually not surprising, as per capita oil use has been dropping in recent decades, and places with a stable or modestly growing population have seen oil use decline.

NY State, as a whole, uses less oil than it did in 1970. Not because New York stopped driving cars, but because our state's population has only grown modestly since then, while we moved away from oil as a fuel for industrial plants and power generation.

Natural gas, especially in the past 10 years, has largely replaced oil use in NY, for generators that have the option to switch between the two.