Comments on: Scary Graph Of How U.S. Consumes More Gas Per Day Than Entire World. http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/12/scary-graph-of-how-us-consumes-more-gas-per-day-than-entire-world/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Being Green. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:52:10 -0500 hourly 1 By: » Weekly Roundup - Night on the Town Edition @ fivecentnickel.com http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/12/scary-graph-of-how-us-consumes-more-gas-per-day-than-entire-world/comment-page-1/#comment-16338 » Weekly Roundup - Night on the Town Edition @ fivecentnickel.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:08 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/12/scary-graph-of-how-us-consumes-more-gas-per-day-than-entire-world/#comment-16338 [...] The Good Human highlighted an interesting graphic illustrating US gas consumption vs. the rest of the world. [...] [...] The Good Human highlighted an interesting graphic illustrating US gas consumption vs. the rest of the world. [...]

]]> By: Richard http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/12/scary-graph-of-how-us-consumes-more-gas-per-day-than-entire-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2386 Richard Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:53:25 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2007/07/12/scary-graph-of-how-us-consumes-more-gas-per-day-than-entire-world/#comment-2386 I think that this set of graphs is misleading. The consumption numbers probably are true, but to get a true picture you would have to correlate them with geography (Japan is the size of California), population) Canada is bigger geographically than the US, but has 10% of the people), population density (all of Europe is denser than the US), and vehicles per capita (China is 10/1000, USA is 467/1000). [Data from CIA World Factbook, Wikipedia - World Population Density, and Earthtrends.org respectively.] While I agree with you that lowering consumption is always good, I think that this data is presented in a way to make the US look bad. p.s. As someone that had to use a Honda Accord to get a few sheets of drywall home yesterday, I think that the evil of SUVs is overstated. I think that this set of graphs is misleading.

The consumption numbers probably are true, but to get a true picture you would have to correlate them with geography (Japan is the size of California), population) Canada is bigger geographically than the US, but has 10% of the people), population density (all of Europe is denser than the US), and vehicles per capita (China is 10/1000, USA is 467/1000). [Data from CIA World Factbook, Wikipedia - World Population Density, and Earthtrends.org respectively.]

While I agree with you that lowering consumption is always good, I think that this data is presented in a way to make the US look bad.

p.s. As someone that had to use a Honda Accord to get a few sheets of drywall home yesterday, I think that the evil of SUVs is overstated.

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