I suspect most people reading this site will realize how much of a band-aid solution proposed off-shore drilling is, but even if you’re cognitively aware of the situation, intuition would dictate that even a little bit more domestic oil would have to be worth pursuing, no?

Seeing is believing, however, and this amazing little graphic from Architecture 2030 puts things into painfully clear focus:

If you’re not interested in doing the math, that amounts to a whopping 1.2% of total consumption. Not altogether too far off the impact of proper tire inflation, come to think of it…