EIA Traces 250 Years of U.S. Energy Use: From Firewood to Fracking

Every so often the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes something that deserves to be printed out and taped to the wall. This is one of those. To mark America's 250th, EIA charted the entire history of U.S. energy consumption — from 1776 firewood to 2025 shale gas — and two Pennsylvania milestones show up along the way: Edwin Drake's first commercial oil well at Titusville in 1859, and the nation's first full-scale commercial nuclear plant, which came online in the Keystone State in 1957.

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