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Re:History of energy consumption in the United States, 1775–... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:53PM (#29818112)
The US convention is capital C Calorie is supposed to be kilocalorie and lowercase calorie is supposed to need regular calorie.

It is a poor convention, I assume brought about by marketing purposes.

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