The graph below gives information from a 2008 report about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projections until 2030.
The line graph shows the amount of energy consumption in the United States from 1980 to 2015, as well as projected consumption to 2030.
Throughout all these years, the most popular fuel among Americans was and will continue to be petrol and oil, which started at 35 quadrillion units in 1980, steadily increased to about 40 quadrillion units in 2015 despite some fluctuations, and is predicted to continue increasing to 50 quadrillion units in 2030. The amount of coal consumed show a nearly reversed trend as that of natural gas. Started at about 16 quadrillion units in 1980, which was lower than the natural gas consumed (20 quadrillion units) in the same year, the figure for coal showed an overall rising trend and reached about 25 quadrillion units in 2015, which was the same as the number of natural gas and is projected to overtake natural gas and rise to about 30 quadrillion units in 2030, while natural gas would level off at 25 quadrillion units thereafter.
A similar pattern was seen in the remaining three types of energy sources, being nuclear power, solar or wind power, and hydropower. In 1980, all these three energy sources were standing at less than 5 quadrillion units, but nuclear power and solar/wind power saw a steady upward trend and may increase to 8 quadrillion units and 6 quadrillion units respectively by 2030. The use of hydropower experienced some fluctuations from 1980 to 2010, then remained unchanged at its starting level and is projected to stay at this level until 2030.
Overall, petrol and oil produced the largest amount of energy in the USA and it will receive increasing importance, whereas the remaining five types of fuel were less popular and will remain insignificant.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, then, well, whereas, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 7.0 157% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 1.00243902439 499% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 6.8 235% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 33.7804878049 142% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1443.0 965.302439024 149% => OK
No of words: 290.0 196.424390244 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97586206897 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 3.73543355544 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74103229207 2.65546596893 103% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 106.607317073 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503448275862 0.547539520022 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 420.3 283.868780488 148% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.482926829268 621% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.36585365854 59% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 36.0 22.4926829268 160% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 108.001085064 43.030603864 251% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 180.375 112.824112599 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.25 22.9334400587 158% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.23603664747 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 3.70975609756 189% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157953828164 0.215688989381 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0893907767589 0.103423049105 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0933453360751 0.0843802449381 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138206774559 0.15604864568 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106235424524 0.0819641961636 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 13.2329268293 153% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.86 61.2550243902 85% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.3012195122 146% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 11.4140731707 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.06136585366 105% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 40.7170731707 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.4329268293 114% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 10.9970731707 149% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.0658536585 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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