Use the fact that at the beginning of 1998, the population of the United States was 268,924,000 people and growing at the rate of 1,856,000 people per year.

At the beginning of 1998, the annual per capita consumption of gasoline in the United States was 52.3 gallons and growing at the rate of .2 gallons per year. At what rate was the total annual consumption of gasoline in the United States increasing at that time? [total annual consumption] = [population] · [annual per capita consumption].)