I think you're telling me that graphs like these always point upwards, right?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

My own impression is that sometimes the aggregate total grows and sometimes it doesn't. And when it grows, sometimes that's because the rebound effect dominates.

Read the part in your link that says "Here, energy refers to primary energy".

Primary energy in the US ignores the primary energy used in China for goods that end up being imported in the US.