Rocky Mountain Institute has created an animated map of US oil imports from 1973 to the present using google maps. The map uses data from the Energy Information Agency’s to show oil flows from exporting countries in terms of volume and dollars.

Click on the image to see the interactive map on RMI’s website.

Image: Rocky Mountain Institute

This article by WorldChanging Canada writer Garry Peterson was originally published on Resilience Science.

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