Remember this chart next time an Environmentalist tries to put a hairshirt on you

The US has never been more energy efficient and will continue to become more so regardless of what Al Gore and his band of sour nannies says or does.  Of course when it does they will claim that their bribery and bullying were key.  Don't believe them.  They lie.

And it's why self righteous statements like "the average American uses 6 times the energy as the average Chinese" are such non sequiturs:  it's not how much one consumes that is relevant, it's what one does with it.  and the evidence is while Americans consume 6 times more, we produce almost 10 times more output.  By that standard, it's the Chinese (and most of the rest of the world) that should be apologizing to us for their energy profligacy.  Failing to take data down to its economic conclusion is just part of the leftist cargo cult that makes a fetish of context free, stand alone statistics.  Again, don't believe them.  Not only do they lie, they are fools.