Not a pretty picture
Uh, wow. I have never seen the data laid out like this before, but from the looks of this graphic, the US uses more gasoline per capita than a bunch of other nations… combined. One can only imagine how much worse it has gotten today, four years after the data in the graphic was gathered.
I am sure that graphics like this make Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Nigeria — the top five importers of oil into the US — very happy because it means more money for them.
Of course, I bet they all wish we were paying them in a currency other than US Dollars, which just hit a new all time low on currency exchanges.
Tons o’ fun.
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Alan wrote:
Unfortunately the Economist chart is not “per capita” but “per day”. It is intuitive that we use lots more gas than anyone else since we are the highest populated developed country. That said, I am sure on a per capita basis we still use a crap load more gas than other countries. I bet the Australians, New Zealanders and Irish are maybe the only ones that are comparable give their lack of mass transit and car-focused city-planning.
Posted 14.Jul.2007 @ 12:24 | Permalink