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Jetée · 04-29-2011, 03:58 PM

This amazing infographic explains what we’d have done with 205 million gallons of oil if the Gulf Oil Spill hadn’t happened...

"Last year’s Gulf Oil Spill released 205 million gallons of oil — such a huge amount, it’s hard to get your mind around.
To help conceptualize it, Chris Harmon created this amazing animated infographic.

I don’t know what’s more mind-blowing: the sheer amount of stuff we make from oil, or the fact that even without the spill,
that quantity of oil still would have led to massive amounts of environmental destruction."

+ bonus (author's comments):
A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I've spent all of my free
time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

[io9. / vimeo.]

04-29-2011, 03:58 PM	#76 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	[infographic ; visual of interest] Oil'd, written & animated by Chris Harmon This amazing infographic explains what we’d have done with 205 million gallons of oil if the Gulf Oil Spill hadn’t happened... "Last year’s Gulf Oil Spill released 205 million gallons of oil — such a huge amount, it’s hard to get your mind around. To help conceptualize it, Chris Harmon created this amazing animated infographic. I don’t know what’s more mind-blowing: the sheer amount of stuff we make from oil, or the fact that even without the spill, that quantity of oil still would have led to massive amounts of environmental destruction." + bonus (author's comments): A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it. As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking. So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I've spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil. [io9. / vimeo.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi