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Robert Hurst is the author of The Art of [Urban] Cycling, Road Biking Colorado, Hiking Through History Colorado, The Art of Mountain Biking: Singletrack Skills for All Riders, The Cyclist’s Manifesto, Best Easy Bike Rides Denver, Best Bike Rides Denver and Boulder, Road Biking Colorado’s Front Range, Mountain Biking Colorado’s San Juan Mountains: Durango and Telluride, and The Bicycle Commuter’s Handbook.
robert @ industrializedcyclist . com
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it?
Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
-- Twain
First sentence of the abstract of an article by Gagnon, Hall, Brinker, 1999. Raises spectre of badly declining EROI.
Article added to ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PAGE.
Just a quick reminder … if your barrels require more and more energy to produce, you will need more and more barrels to maintain the same level of net energy.
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