The peculiarity of Finnish energy history is best to be examined in a transnational framework, where energy use and industrialization are closely connected to each other. This relationship is often considered an international pattern, a key regularity of modern global economic history. Therefore, it is claimed to be a decisive characteristic of globalization, featuring the expansion of trade in goods and services as well as the migration of population. At first coal, ‘black gold’, in the nineteenth century and then oil, ‘the global juice’, in the twentieth century have been regarded to power mass production and consumption culture throughout the modern world (MacGilliway 2006).