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.
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
Filed under: Bike of the Day
Remember those studded tires improve the situation but don’t solve the problem of two wheels on ice.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2001, 2009, commuting, National Household Travel Survey, time in vehicles, transportation, Vmt
From the 2009 National Household Travel Survey.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Black Canyon Highway, Boulder Dam, Colorado River, energy, Hoover Dam, hydroelectric power, spillways
Been writing a little bit about flood control, dams and spillways recently.
Enjoy your Christmas everybody.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electricity, peak oil, Saudi Arabia, solar energy
Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for its continued reliance on oil to generate electricity. Its power plants consume 800,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent, Ziyad Al Shiha, the executive director of Saudi Aramco Power Systems, told reporters in May. With the price of crude above US$100 a barrel on international markets, the opportunity cost is high, making investments in alternative sources of power more attractive.
via Saudis kicking off major move into solar – The National.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Bow River, Canada, Cenex, crude oil, Enbridge, Express, North America, oil pipelines, pipelines, Rangeland, Suncor, tar sands, Trans-Mountain
Note — does not show product pipelines.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Natural gas, net energy, pipelines, transportation
From the EIA.
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipelines_map.html
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012, EIA, forecasts, oil price predictions, peak oil
It’s that time of year. Let’s get the ball rolling with an official govt. forecast. We’re getting established over 100/barrel here.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/
…in the U.S. Down to 18.5 million barrels per day.
WEEKLY PETROLEUM SUMMARY FOR WEEK ENDING DEC. 16 — EIA http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/wpsrsummary.pdf
“Total products supplied over the last four-week period have averaged nearly 18.5 million barrels per day, down by 5.8 percent compared to the similar period last year. Over the last four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied has averaged 8.7 million barrels per day, down by 4.7 percent from the same period last year.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Chevron, Kazakhstan, Mark Ames, massacre, riot, strike
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 