Industrialization & energy: a question

I've seen charts of U.S. power consumption from the 1930s to the 1990s, & they all show a fairly steady increase, decade over decade.

It made me wonder what the effect of earlier industrialization in the U.S. might have. Say, for instance (& exactly how is irrelevant to me), somebody invents a very early internal combustion engine around 1800, & it enters mass production (comparable to the Concord stage, if not exactly the Model T).

How much does this increase U.S. energy consumption between 1800 & 1900, compared to OTL? (Bearing in mind U.S. population was dramatically smaller than 1900-2000, so that direct parallel isn't great.)

Thoughts?
 
While it would be possible to knock up a working internal combustion engine in 1800. (the Niepce brothers did) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9olophore

To be able to mass produce a I.C.E. such as that use in the model T would require a number of changes to occur much earlier. Vulcanized rubber, precision metal boring and steel ball bearings need to be invented as well as the wide scale availiblity of liquid fuel.

Without changing to much history the 1880's would be the earliest you could mass produce an I.C.E. powered vehicle.
 
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HARRY said:
While it would be possible to knock up a working internal combustion engine in 1800...[t]o be able to mass produce a I.C.E. such as that use in the model T would require a number of changes to occur much earlier. Vulcanized rubber, precision metal boring and steel ball bearings need to be invented as well as the wide scale availiblity of liquid fuel.
To begin with, if you can mass-produce firearms, it's possible to mass-produce a once-cylinder IC engine. Tires need not be rubber to start with.

And, notice I said I don't care. Handwave it. Claim the Vulcans got here early. I'm less interested in "how it's impossible" than on "what the effect is".
 
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