It's very wrong and often echoed here unfortunately. Here is a graph is US energy intensity: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191 http://www.e

It's very wrong and often echoed here unfortunately. Here is a graph is US energy intensity: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191 http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10191 The US uses less than half the amount of energy per unit of GDP than it did in 1950.