A Cubic Mile of Oil is a 2010 book by Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, and Ripudaman Malhotra.
The title refers to a unit of energy intended to provide a visualizable scale for comparing large amounts of energy.
Defined as the energy released by burning a cubic mile of oil, a "CMO" is approximately equal to 1.6×1020 joule.
[1][2][3][4][5] A cubic mile of oil was approximately the world's yearly consumption of oil at the time of the book and the book examines the possible replacements with other sources.
[6] In 2022, Visual Capitalist estimated global consumption of oil translated into a cube 1706 meters on a side (or ~6% longer than 1 mile [1609 meters]).