Energetic Limits to Economic Growth

[Benton D Struckcheon]

10. One more time,

it's very simple: the US is a net food exporter. NONE of that industry has gone over to China. It's also very energy intensive. We get two percent of our stuff from China, once you net it all out. That leaves 98% still here, and beyond that, a lot of that 2% is stuff that we used to get from Mexico, Taiwan, and so on. So that one sentence where he says that the US drop in energy consumption is due to our energy intensive industry moving to China is wrong. If that's wrong, so is the rest of his argument, since US energy use peaked in 2007, but the US economy is now larger than it was that year. He claims, as he obviously knows this, that the US can't be used as a counterexample to his supposed law. I'm saying it can.
That's all.