Posts Tagged ‘gas’
“If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday”*…
… and for your searching pleasure here are all of our yesterdays, in an animation scrolling by at 1.5 million years per second…
Earth is 4.5 billion years old – which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video. We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie!… Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is. It’s the perfect background for your next party, a great way to take a break from studying, or a fascinating companion while you’re on the go…
From German animation house Kurzgesagt (“in a nutshell”)…
Posters here.
* Pearl Buck
###
As we trace our steps, we might recall that it was on this date in 1913 that Gulf Refining Company opened the first “drive-in filling station” in Pittsburgh. It was the first architect-designed station and the first to distribute free road maps; it also offered tube and tire installation, free water and air, and crankcase services.
Knowing the cost of everything and the worth of…
The price of gasoline is, as we experience it, an altogether artificial construct. What we pay is only marginally about the actual cost of the refined crude. The price is hugely affected by the hand of government(s): on the one hand, there’s the burden of heavy taxation; and on the other, the (usually “invisible”) subsidies afforded in the provision of drilling rights, military protection, etc. Still, it’s painful to pause at the pump… and it’s getting more so.
The good folks at GOOD have ridden to the rescue with a little perspective, “Gallon to Gallon“: a comparison of the per gallon cost of a number of things that we routinely consume…
click the image above, or here, for a larger version
[TotH to Flowing Data]
As we are more cautious in our choice of nail color, we might wish a speedy birthday to Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race, America’s top level of open-wheel racing; she was born on this date in 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Patrick, who trained in England and the U.S. was named Indy Car Rookie of the Year in 2005, and won her first race– the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Montegi in Montegi, Japan– in 2008. She continues to compete, and has found time to appear as a celebrity endorser for for a number of companies, perhaps most famously, the web domain purveyor GoDaddy.
You must be logged in to post a comment.