The data linked is not total US "gasoline consumption."
It is a very different statistic, specifically "US Total Gasoline Retail Sales by Refiners.
It used to be that refining companies not only refined oil into gasoline, but also owned gas stations where they sold retail gasoline.
Many of the refiners have sold their gas stations to MLPs or retailers like Pantry Inc. and no longer own or operate retail gas stations.
ZeroHedge's analysis here is moronic.
See post 51.
As is so often the case.