U.S. oil demand will be little changed through 2015, but continued strong growth in domestic crude-oil output will shrink reliance on imports to its lowest level since 1970, government forecasters said Tuesday. The world’s biggest oil consumer will burn an estimated 18.88 million barrels of petroleum products in 2014, barely up from 18.87 million barrels a day in 2013, the Energy Information Administration said. Forecasters see only a slim 0.4% increase to 18.96 million barrels a day in 2015. Demand for gasoline–the most widely used petroleum product–is expected to ease, while demand for diesel fuel is seen inching higher. The flat demand picture will allow U.S. petroleum-product exports to continue to rise. As domestic producers pump more crude oil from shale-oil fields, U.S. reliance on oil imports will continue to drop. Net oil imports will drop to 4.53 million barrels a […]