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The financial return on energy invested

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed found this 6/23/2009 on europe.theoildrum.com

Global GDP data from the USDA. Primary energy data and energy prices from the BP statistical reveiw of world energy 2009. Global GDP has grown steadily and continuously since WWII, in step with a growing global population and primary energy consumption (see below). Oil shocks have ...