"Peak Demand" for energy is total HOGWASH

[dan_s]

Per EIA:

Primary energy consumption in the United States reached a record high of 101.3 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2018, up 4% from 2017 and 0.3% above the previous record set in 2007. The increase in 2018 was the largest increase in energy consumption, in both absolute and percentage terms, since 2010.

Consumption of fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—grew by 4% in 2018 and accounted for 80% of U.S. total energy consumption. Natural gas consumption reached a record high, rising by 10% from 2017. This increase in natural gas, along with relatively smaller increases in the consumption of petroleum fuels, renewable energy, and nuclear electric power, more than offset a 4% decline in coal consumption.

Read more: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39092

As long as human population keeps growing, demand for energy keeps growing. Demand for oil based products grows by about a million barrels per day just from China + India.

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The United States consumed 3.4 billion barrels of gasoline and 1.5 billion barrels of distillate fuel oil in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration ("Petroleum Supply Monthly", EIA, March 2019).

I wonder if AOC has a clue of how many windmills and solar panels it will take to replace this much energy.