Tag Archives: oil

Useful graphics on oil consumption/production

Why Does Gas Cost $4+ per Gallon?

What’s in a barrel?

What’s in a price?

Price Range

Sticker Shock

Major Global Trade Routes

U.S. Oil Production vs. Consumption

U.S. Oil Imports

Top Importers and Exporters

No longer “Drowning in Oil”

From the recent Washington Post article, “This Time, It’s Different” :
…a decade ago…conditions looked radically different. Regular unleaded gas was less than a dollar a gallon. Oil was little more than $10 a barrel. And the Economist magazine, predicting prices could soon be half that, ran a cover story with the headline: “Drowning in Oil.”
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A tiny bit about energy policy

My new research project with Pete Pirolli will be based on the following hypothesis: Diversity of people and information in social networks will lead users to be better at information discovery and sensemaking tasks. This is proving to be quite tricky to set up properly. But we have decided that our “tasks” will be in [...]