{"id":1567,"date":"2010-05-04T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T02:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2010-05-04T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T02:25:06","slug":"nyt-infographics-vmt-and-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/nyt-infographics-vmt-and-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Infographics – VMT and Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two great infographics from the New York Times – both related to petroleum.<\/p>\n

First, a great graph of per capita VMT compared to changes in gas prices<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"nyt_vmt_gasprices\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Putting vehicle miles traveled per capita along the x-axis instead of time makes the swings in both price and VMT more obvious. The massive growth of VMT over time despite the swings in prices shows just how entrenched car culture and automobility are in the US.<\/p>\n

All that VMT must need a lot of oil. The Times also has a handy map<\/a> of the Coast Guard’s forecasts for the extent of the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

April 22:<\/p>\n

\"nyt-oil-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

April 28:<\/p>\n

\"nyt-oil-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

May 1:<\/p>\n

\"nyt-oil-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

May 4:<\/p>\n

\"nyt-oil-4\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two great infographics from the New York Times – both related to petroleum. First, a great graph of per capita VMT compared to changes in gas prices: Putting vehicle miles traveled per capita along the x-axis instead of time makes the swings in both price and VMT more obvious. The massive growth of VMT over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[453,110,208,189,209,207],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","tag-energy","tag-maps","tag-new-york-times","tag-oil","tag-oil-spill","tag-vmt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}