Isn't this best explained by inflation. It seems like this implies that inflation adjusted GDP/energy remained pretty constant

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usefulcat 2 days ago | parent [-]

Those numbers are in units of "Consumption per Real Dollar of GDP", which is defined as follows: "Calculated as energy consumption divided by U.S. gross domestic product in chained (2017) dollars".

I don't know exactly what it meant by "chained", although from the context it does sound as though it might mean something like "inflation adjusted".

	▲	TrainedMonkey 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I am getting more and more peeved by using GDP as a single number. Cost of existing, aka housing and healthy food, skyrocketed compared to median income. But hey, the tech got cheaper.
	▲	dismalaf 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> I don't know exactly what it meant by "chained" It does mean they tried to eliminate inflation as a factor. In my experience though the basket of goods used for inflation calculations do a poor job representing the majority of consumers' and businesses' costs.