Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cantarell, crude oil, exports, imports, Mexico, oil production, peak oil, Pemex, refining capacity
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pemex-oil-output-slips-for-7th-year-2011-12-31
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: 1971, Amtrak, Gregor McDonald, Obama, passenger rail, rail, railway map, transport, transportation
Via Gregor McDonald’s blog, showing massive loss of inter-urban lines from ’62 to ’71. Gregor calls on Obama to support passenger rail.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: collapse, cornucopianism, Do the Math, limits to growth, peak oil, Tom Murphy
Found myself in strong agreement with this blog post from Tom Murphy.
RT @DylanByers: Sunni leader denies participation in @NYTimes op-ed bearing his byline: politi.co/vLSQOi—
Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) December 30, 2011
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: exports, James Hamilton, petroleum, pipelines, product pipelines, Suncor, transport, transportation, United States
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The blue lines are product pipelines. Greens are oil and reds are gas.
From this James Hamilton post on the petroleum product net export situation.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Iran, maps, saber-rattling, Strait of Hormuz
http://www.insideofiran.org/en/news/1753-iran-guards-ready-to-close-strait-of-hormuz.html
It’s over here. From the NYT, Dec. 25, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/asia/in-china-the-wukan-revolt-could-be-a-harbinger.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, DOT, energy, vehicle miles traveled, Vmt
Holy mackerel, vehicle miles driven continues to drop. Now 47 months and counting below the previous peak.
Feds’ numbers: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/tvtw/11octtvt/index.cfm
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crude oil, Ed Walsh, energy, gasoline, Iran, oil price, peak oil, Tom Keene, WTI
#Oil Extends Longest Rally Since 2010 as Iran Threatens Shipping – Businessweek buswk.co/t9zyUA shenk …ed morse $4 a gal by summer—
tom keene (@tomkeene) December 27, 2011
Filed under: Bike of the Day
Remember those studded tires improve the situation but don’t solve the problem of two wheels on ice.
