The line graph highlights data about how much renewable energy was consumed in the USA, over a 59-year period from 1949 to 2008.
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, it is clearly seen that all kinds of renewable energy witnessed a significant increase.
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and hydroelectric power consumption, they went in a similar direction until 2000. The former started at 3.6 Linking Words
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which doubled the latter at the beginning of the period. Regarding the former and latter, they rose substantially from 2.4 to 7 and 1.8 to 2 Use synonyms
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respectively, despite some fluctuations over the period in question. As for wood, it remained relatively constant until 1975, accounting for 1.6 Use synonyms
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, after which it experienced negligible growth until 1989, reaching its peak (2.5 Use synonyms
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If we look at biofuels and wind, there was little difference between the number of biofuels and wind, as the former made up 1.4 Use synonyms
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the latter was lower by a margin of 0.3 Linking Words
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