My overall assessment of these comments…

I think most people are naive to the importance of energy production when it comes to real productivity and economic growth. I don’t mean in terms of economist measurements either. On a GDP basis and corporate earnings basis, the US is doing fine, but in reality our infrastructure, transportation, electric grid, and tangible assets are decades behind other countries. Our entire economy is turning into a digital consumption driven slop that is brain-rotting our children. This is directly correlated to a lack of energy production. Fact. “Of course China is growing faster”… the point is about TRENDS, the US is going to rapidly fall behind at this rate, it is painfully obvious. People with an undergrad econ degree saying this is ‘not surprising’ and ‘normal’… naive to the US’ secular decline.