Postwar household energy use rose sharply despite a decade of solar-promotion

Evidence

From 1945 to 1970, the energy consumption of the average American household increased precipitously. In the 1960s alone, the jump in household energy use was 30 percent. That was unprecedented. The high-energy house – heated and cooled by fossil fuels – had become the norm. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 213

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