Originally Posted by acroy
An interesting line from Popular Science:
"Largely as a result of technological advances, the U.S. now uses 47 percent less energy per dollar of economic output than it did 30 years ago."
For some reason, that quote annoys me. As if economic output were any sort of scale for how much energy you should be using. Sounds more like a way to make the overconsuming americans feel better about themselves.