The world uses 85 million barrels of Oil per day.
At 42 gallons to the barrel, that’s three billion, five hundred and seventy million gallons of oil (3,570,000,000).
Niagara falls has a flow rate of 150,000 U.S. gallons per second.
3,570,000,000 of oil / 150,000 gallons per second = 23,800 seconds of flow equivalent.
In other words, if you were able to replace the flow over niagara falls with nothing but oil for 6.6 hours a day, that’s how much oil the 6+ billion inhabitants of the earth burn every single day of every year, and have been for more or less the past ten years. |
