The grid, the fuel cushion, the strategic reserves and the sea lanes that carry world trade, back through the decades. Toggle series on and off, zoom to an era, and see how storage, prices, production and attacks on shipping actually moved through past shocks — context for whatever they’re doing now.
The grid, the fuel cushion and the reserves, over the decades.
The baseline for judging today’s headlines instead of reacting to them.
A Maritime security group charts attacks, boardings, hijackings and piracy against ships worldwide, by region — the chokepoints and sea lanes that carry roughly 80% of world trade are infrastructure too. Watch the Somali-piracy surge and collapse, and the Gulf of Guinea taking over. Source: NGA Anti-Shipping Activity Messages, a historical archive that runs about two years behind — read it for the trend, not this week.
The livestock, food-output and crop series moved to their own tool: Food & Agriculture History. They were briefly here, but they are a different subject with a much longer record — most of it runs from the 1860s — and they were crowding the energy series this tool exists for.
Historical context, simplified for the web. A single low or high reading means more against its own history than in isolation — that’s what this is for.
