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US oil use and dependence

We still use too much fossil based energy here.  We are a rich nation due in part to the abundant Natural Resources we have versus the population.  Not everyone is rich though and it hurts some more than others when energy or food costs spike up.  That all said, I was unaware that we had continued on the downward move to using less of the worlds energy output like the below chart displays.  Somehow it didn’t look exactly right so I did a little more search and found that the US still used about the same amount of fossil fuel energy since at least 1980… the difference is that everyone else is using a lot more…

In 1965, the United States dominated world oil

“And Now the Rest of the Story – “US oil use and dependence