Energy Is Everything, Technology Is a Muse

The average american consumes around 17 barrels of oil per year in our footprint. We import stuff that's made from other countries, particularly china. So we use a round 72 barrel of oil per person per year in the united states. And this has made us pretty much materially richer than kings and queens of old. The scale of this is ar gantuin. Every year we seem to have a little bit more in the world. But of course, there's more people and a so we're largely blind to this. It truly is a bank account that we are inherited - burning through it as if a ten-year-old would burn through his inheritance on video games or such a