End of the road as carmaker Saab files for bankruptcy – Yahoo! News.
My dad used to own a bright green two-cylinder slug-shaped Saab. The company’s heritage as a manufacturer of jet fighters was not very evident in the design.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, James Hamilton, keystone xl pipeline, oil sands, pipeline, shale gas
Econbrowser: Costs and benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Through 2008…
FROM CITY OF PORTLAND, OREGON 2008 FATALITY SUMMARY
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, bicycle commuting, bicycling, Community Survey, mode share, Us census
From League of American Bicyclists.
Notice how the largest percent increases occurred in cities that were already big bike cities.
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Excerpted from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News. Annual Stats Issue, 2011. (An overview of 2010 retail picture.)
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Fixed or increasing costs, declining revenue.
From the Toronto Star,
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…from zerohedge
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Louise Basinese, Wall Street Daily. The confusion about refinery product exports is getting brutal.
http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2011/12/16/peak-oil/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Complete Streets, DOT, energy policy, Ray LaHood, stimulus, TIGER, transportation policy
The “TIGER” program has nothing for Colorado, and very little in general for western states.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/us/transportation-projects/index.html
From the pdf …
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http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Colorado-tightens-fracking-rules-2401144.php
That’s cool, it’s nice to know what goes in. More important — what comes out, and what do they do with it.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Barnett Shale, Chris Nelder, economics of shale gas, frac, fracking, proven reserves, recoverable reserves, SEC
“The Questionable Economics of Shale Gas,” by Chris Nelder, Dec. 14, 2011.
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Economic growth: it’s not dead yet | Colin McInnes | spiked.
In this bit McInnes argues that economic growth can continue after Peak Oil — citing as evidence all the wonderful engineering which occurred in the cheap oil era and which depended on cheap oil for its existence. I find his argument less persuasive and more simplistic than the ‘doomer’ arguments he is criticizing.
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Tom Murphy on Tidal Energy, Do The Math Blog.
There isn’t enough to make much difference.
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Is this true?
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From Credit Writedowns..
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This is an excellent article by Derik Andreoli, looking at the historical big picture of American extraction booms.
The Oil Drum | The Bakken Boom – A Modern-Day Gold Rush.
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Chart by Jeffrey Brown (aka “westtexas”).
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The European Cyclists’ Federation just put out a study on CO2 emissions and the possible savings that might come from additional cycling in the EU.
QUANTIFYING CYCLING’S CO2 SAVINGS (pdf)
[just one of several interesting graphics from this report]
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 
