Energy & Resources
Electricity, oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, nuclear, mining, metals and water.
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Real Time Oil Usage Worldwide
Barrels of oil the world uses as a clock runs, at 2025's rate of 1,207 a second: the US and China, then everyone else.
Updated 2025 -
Oil Made, Oil Used: US, Canada and Saudi Arabia, 1984–2025
The oil the US, Canada and Saudi Arabia produce against the oil they consume, drawn as three balances that tip toward the heavier side, year by year since 1984.
Updated 2025 -
Oil Made, Oil Used: US, India and Japan, 1984–2025
The oil the US, India and Japan produce against the oil they consume, drawn as three balances that tip toward the heavier side, year by year since 1984.
Updated 2025 -
Oil Made, Oil Used: US, Mexico and Norway, 1984–2025
The oil the US, Mexico and Norway produce against the oil they consume, drawn as three balances that tip toward the heavier side, year by year since 1984.
Updated 2025 -
Oil Made, Oil Used: US, Brazil and Indonesia, 1984–2025
The oil the US, Brazil and Indonesia produce against the oil they consume, drawn as three balances that tip toward the heavier side, year by year since 1984.
Updated 2025 -
Oil Made, Oil Used: US, China and the UK, 1980–2025
The oil the US, China and the UK produce against the oil they consume, drawn as three balances that tip toward the heavier side, year by year since 1980.
Updated 2025 -
What Washington Kept: Gold, Oil and Helium, 1947–2026
US gold, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and federal helium as three shafts, each measured down from its own record high, from 1947 to the helium sale of 2024 and today.
Updated 16 September 2026 -
Texas Reservoirs, 1950–2026
Texas's water-supply reservoirs as a glass sphere, month by month from the drought of the 1950s to today.
Updated 25 September 2026 -
US Natural Gas in Storage, 2010–2026
The natural gas stored underground in the Lower 48 states as a glass sphere, filling every summer and drawn down every winter, week by week since 2010.
Updated 18 September 2026 -
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 1977–2026
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a glass sphere, filling from its first barrels in 1977 to its 2010 high and draining since, week by week.
Updated 18 September 2026 -
Lake Mead's Water Level, 1935–2026
Lake Mead as a glass sphere filling and draining month by month since 1935, with a dashed line at 1,035 feet, below which most of Hoover Dam's turbines cannot run.
Updated 24 September 2026