Tag: oil

Let’s track the falling gasoline prices!

When I fill up my daily-driver Prius, the price of gasoline isn’t that important. But when I occasionally take a trip in my V8 Suburban, I pay a lot more attention! Therefore I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that gasoline prices have been falling. How much have they fallen, […]

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Does the US really produce the most oil now?!?

Over the years, the US has drilled for crude oil in several locations, such as Pennsylvania, Texas, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico. A few years ago, as the US started drilling more in North Dakota, there were forecasts that we would surpass Saudi Arabi…

Driving 74 million cars on wasted natural gas

Did you know you could drive 74 million cars using the wasted natural gas that is flared from oil wells and refineries? Learn more details in this blog post! Flaring (burning) is commonly used to dispose of natural gas produced at oil and gas facilities that lack the infrastructure to capture it […]

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Drilling down on fracking graphs

The topic of fracking has been in the news a lot lately – this blog post explores some of the finer points of plotting opinion data related to fracking … I recently saw the following graph on dadaviz.com. It showed some interesting data, and presented the data in a way […]

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