Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Eagle Ford shale, frac, oil, oil shale, shale gas, shale oil, Texas, tight gas, tight oil, tracking, water
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009930222847246.html
Piece in WSJ on oil versus water in Texas. The inconvenient reality of hydro-fracking. The article itself claims 6 million gallons needed for each Frac in the Eagle Ford. (The article is behind the paywall.)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Calculated Risk, currency values, euro, eurozone, forex, post-euro
From Nomura via Calculated Risk/FT Alphaville.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: air travel, anthropocene, energy, transatlantic
http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
transatlantic air routes
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: OECD, oil, oil consumption, oil exports, oil production, OPEC
Based on BP Statistical Review of World Energy…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basra, Iraq, Kurds, Malaki, oil, Shiites, Sunnis
Iraq oil hub Basra wants bigger say, more autonomy | Reuters.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike commuting, bike lanes, bike snob, Doig, Salon, urban cycling
“Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs?” by Will Doig, Salon, December 4, 2011
The sensationalistic headline hides a rational column and an interesting take on bike lanes from a confessed beginner commuter…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Afghanistan, fuel, Khyber Pass, Pakistan, supply routes
It’s worth it though, because there’s so much good war going on.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drone, Drones, Iran, surveillance drone, war
…they took control of the thing and landed it. According to local reports, which appear contrary to the headline below.
Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone: reports – Tehran Times.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: embargo, exports, Iran, oil, OPEC, petroleum, production
Iran – Analysis – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: exports, gas prices, Iran, oil, oil supply, OPEC, petroleum, Senate, war
Iran Faces Oil Curbs as U.S. Targets Central Bank While EU Adds Sanctions – Bloomberg.
I don’t know if these guys realize. Iran produces a lot of oil, and exports about 2.2 million barrels per day. This is a very strange/interesting development. “Choking off” Iranian exports will not only send prices to the stratosphere here, but could also cause very serious supply disruptions around the world, gas lines, rationing, general chaos. Now why would they want to do that?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: accident, bicycle, bicycling, bike, collision, cycling, traffic, traffic safety, Washington, Wessels
Also from the Wessels pdf…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: accident, bicycle, bicycling, bike, collision, traffic, traffic safety, Washinton
From the study by Ralph Wessels (pdf).
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Barnett, frack, map, Marcellus, Niobara, Niobrara, Shale, tight gas, tight oil, tracking, unconventional oil
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/12/occupy_the_airs.php
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colorado, Encana, fracking, fruking, Natural gas, nuclear fracking, Rio Blanco, Rulison, Wyoming
Colo. Supreme Court Considers Nuke Site Drilling – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver.
Note: Encana is the same company that jacked up the ground water in Wyoming. Abraham Lustgarten, “EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer,” Scientific American/ProPublica, November 10, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Benzene, Colorado Department of Health, denver, EPA, leak, pipeline, Platte River, rupture, Sand Creek, scoundrels, spill, Suncor
What's in black ooze near Colorado river? Benzene and a mystery – latimes.com.
The short article passes over some choice tidbits, the fact that the health dept. knew about this for a month and did nothing until a fisherman wrote about the spill on his blog, that the dudes at the nearby water treatment plant had to wear respirators due to mystery fumes for a week but nobody thought to trace the source, etc.
Seasonally Adjusted Sales Rate on the rise, comes in above consensus at 13.6.
Chart from Calculate Risk.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cherry creek path, denver, MUP
The streets were a mess but the path was plowed. Two big thumbs up.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 