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Here’s a graph showing overall fossil fuel USAGE in the US peaked about 2008. The Biden years do show an upward trend but it looks more like COVID recovery and flattens out well under 2008
https://www.statista.com/statistics/244429/us-fossil-fuel-energy-consumption-by-sector/
But this probably explains what you see. Check out this graph of petroleum exports sky rocketing in recent years, including during Biden years as new drilling technology like fracking and horizontal drilling quickly turned us into the biggest oil producing country. Oil companies have been getting rich
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191320/total-us-petroleum-exports/
And here’s one that explains the different. Look at drilling leases by president and you’ll see far less under Biden. Trump 1 had record leases and all that new drilling came through while Biden was president, but Biden tried to cut back. Remember, oil wells don’t magically produce on day 1
https://www.voronoiapp.com/natural-resources/Oil--Gas-Leases-on-Public-Lands-Under-Obama-Trump-and-Biden-3282
I think the problem is we're talking about two different things...
What I don't understand is why you capslocked "usage" if you didn't notice they were separate things.
Like, it should be obvious but which do you think causes more pollution and global climate change:
Digging up a ton of coal in West Virginia, and burning it in West Virginia under US laws.
Digging up a ton of coal in West Virginia, loading it onto a boat, shipping it to China, distributing to their rural areas who rely on coal, them burning it with zero environmental regulations.
Not saying it's good to burn coal here.
Just explaining why I explicitly brought up production and not usage.
Because the only thing worse than using your own fossil fuel reserve,bis destroying your environment to sell it to another country.
That fucking coal will be just as good in a thousand years, and we probably wouldn't need to frack to get it if we ever did need it.
People don't understand how much tech bros would charge for that kind of stored energy storage on that long of timeframe, it's literally invaluable when you look at it on a long timeline.
Or why countries with a shit ton of coal themselves are happy to pay more to get ours.
Once we can't sell anymore, theirs becomes a shit ton more valuable