This indicator measures how much energy our economy consumes for each dollar it produces.
Energy efficiency is a measure of economic competitiveness.
Getting more out of each unit of energy means paying less when we heat our homes, drive our cars, purchase products and run our industries. Those savings can become an investment instead in new businesses, in education and in new technologies. Economic Efficient businesses have a powerful advantage over their inefficient competitors. They pay less when they buy energy and then pay less again when they are spared from expensive cleanup of pollution. Fluctuations in the price of fuel have less effect on efficient companies and government regulators have less need to focus on them.