Our total rejected energy is more than our total energy use.
In electricity generation, we lose 2/3 of our energy to waste.
In transportation, 3/4 of our energy is wasted (hence looking at MPG isn't a terrible idea... I just wonder why it is the primary focus of Congress. Actually, I don't. It's about control.)
Exactly right you are!
It is a SPIT in the bucket to make people THINK the statists are trying to do something to reduce energy usage or use it more efficiently.
The powerlines is something I have thought about for a long time. I always thought that if we could ever produce cheap, room temperature superconductive material that could be drawn into wire, our energy issues would be solved.
Just think about how having room temperature superconducting wires would completely revolutionize the energy grid. All that loss...
The other thing that is interesting about that graph (the unaltered one) is the teeny, tiny 0.12% net energy imports (the nearly invisible line the juts out of the top of the mustard colored line like a stray hair from a cowlick...what the heck is THAT? Electricity imported from Mexico or Canada?
...er...that is 0.12% net ELECTRICITY imports, not energy imports...