This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Site member border2 posted this idea to our Suggestion Box:
I think it could be useful/interesting to have some sort of a comparison or perspective of how much oil is being consumed by the U.S. and the world. … Like every x number of minutes the U.S. consumes x number of Olympic-size swimming pools of oil. I really don’t have a concept of the massive amount of oil we are using – x barrels of oil doesn’t translate into something I can plug into my world.
I put this question to one of our numbers experts, Noah Greenberg, and here’s what he told me.