Saturday, March 15, 2008

U.S. daily oil consumption.

I took the time to make this random image. It illustrates our daily consumption of oil by laying out the barrels on the map of the U.S. The purple line represents a 3-barrel stack of oil barrels. I sort of thought that 20,000,000 barrels of oil would at least go around the world, but she only gets about 1/3 of the way... this is based upon the Standard Oil Company's 42-gallon Blue Barrels, which are 24" in diameter.

1 comment:

mudskipper said...

This is a startling image Jeremy! Something Americans should think about more often in my opinion. Thanks for your comments on our blog. I am enjoying all the different types of posts and multimedia on yours.

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