Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike paths, Bobin, Calgary, commuting, infrastructure, MUP, planning, tacos, urban planning
Tom Babin, “Path popularity creating planning problem,” Calgary Herald, Dec. 10, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: confusion, Curtis Robinson, energy, exports, imports, Portland Daily Sun
http://portlanddailysun.me/node/30737/
Portland Daily Sun founding editor Curtis Robinson is also badly confused about the significance of the refinery products exporting “milestone.” What happens when your editor needs an editor? That WSJ article has spread absolute carnage through the newsrooms of America…
Trick question indeed.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, energy illiteracy, exports, fracking, imports, Nestlerode, peak oil, production, State College
From statecollege.com, Dec. 4, 2011.
…very quietly, I guess.
The author Dan Nestlerode is apparently the Director of Research at his firm. Ouch Dan!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: coal, energy, energy intensity, Offshoring
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electric vehicles, energy, EVs, Nissan Leaf
Ouch on the $2000 home charging station installation.
Answers about charging Nissan LEAF | Nissan USA.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: EIA, energy balance, energy independence, exports, imports, primary energy, total BTUs
For the people (especially journalists) who have written that the US is now a “net energy exporter.”
From EIA data: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf (pdf)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Exxon, oil, oil supply predictions, peak oil, production
http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article666169.ece
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Christiophe de Margerie, energy, energy balance, Exxon Mobil, imports, media lies, peak oil, Tillerson, Total
New oil strikes keep oil prices on the defensive (USO, PTR, TOT, XOM) – NASDAQ.com.
“For the first time in a long time, the United States is a net energy exporter.”
Ah no. Not by a long shot. The US is now a net exporter of refinery products. Still a massive importer of petroleum and ‘energy.’
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/12/aar-rail-traffic-increased-in-november.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, exports, fracking, imports, Natural gas
BP STATISTICAL REVIEW OF WORLD ENERGY, NAT. GAS PRICES
Notice how the price in the US is about half the average German import price for 2010.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, consumption, demand, EIA, exports, flow chart, imports, Natural gas, production, supply
From: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/diagram3.cfm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Conoco, energy, energy independence, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, production
… the oil and gas companies will export overseas if they can make a buck off of it when prices ‘collapse’ in the US. This pretty much fracks the whole idea of drilling for ‘energy independence.’ The only thing independent here is the oil/gas company.
Ross Kelly, “Conoco Studying North America’s Gas Export Potential,” Rigzone, Dec. 8, 2011
Behemoth liquid-cooled GM Volt batteries may catch fire after crashes.
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2011/12/ap_source_coolant_leak_likely.html
Filed under: Bike of the Day | Tags: bicycle, bicycles, bike, bike of the day, Bob Jackson
Classic frame turned single-speed.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike commuting, commuting, denver, mode share
…with a whopping 2.2% mode share.
From http://denverurbanism.com/2011/10/denver-hits-2-2-bicycle-commuter-mode-share-for-2010.html and the Community Survey.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: BP, Dudley, oil, oil price predictions, OPEC, peak oil
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=113132&hmpn=1
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, EU, Iran, Japan, oil exports, OPEC, production, Turkey
From http://www.eia.gov/cabs/iran/Full.html
If the EU stops buying oil from Iran, that would seem to benefit China, Turkey and Japan.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 