A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it. 

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking. 

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I’ve spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Oil’d (by Chris Harmon)

‘In Transition’ is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun. 

In Transition 1.0 with French subtitles (by Transition Towns)

En juin 1979, suite à un problème technique, une source de pétrole se répand dans le Golfe du Mexique et se dirige vers la Floride. Parallèlement, un pipeline se met à fuir en Alaska. L’équivalent de milliers de barils se répand sous l’eau et dans la nature… et ce pendant pas moins de NEUF mois. Même séquence d’événements, mêmes techniques utilisées pour tenter de colmater les fuites (qui n’avaient pas marché en 1979), même mise en danger des écosystèmes locaux. Aujourd’hui l’opération “top hat” tente de boucher la fuite. A l’époque, c’était l’opération “Sombrero”. Funny, isn’t it?

Rachel Maddow- The more spills change_ the more they stay the same (via StartLoving3)