Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boehner, congress, energy, gas prices, Mitch McConnell, peak oil, reid, SPR, strategic petroleum reserve
And that leaves me in weird agreement with Mitch McConnell, one of the most objectionable individuals in the entire den of thieves on Capitol Hill:
“The [SPR] is there for an emergency situation. You have to ask the question: If there were release from the [SPR], would it have the desired effect, and how long would it have the desired effect?” McConnell said.
via Worried Dems pressing Obama on gas prices – TheHill.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: available net exports, Chindia, energy, India, India oil consumption, India oil imports, peak oil, unavailable net exports
Via the Energy Export Databrowser:
Also — China’s import picture.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, India, Iran, Iran oil exports, Iran sanctions
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Asia, China, Chindia, oil consumption, oil demand, oil imports, peak oil
via the Export Data Browser:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Chris Cook, cornucopianism, EROI, market manipulation, Naked Capitalism, peak oil, refineries, WTI
…has little to do with geology, EROI and all that, and everything to do with manipulation by market players. An interesting take, although I don’t get on board with any analyst that completely ignores an entire wing of the mental hospital of energy ideas.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/chris-cook-the-oil-end-game.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Cushing, Gulf Coast leg, Keystone XL, NYMEX, oil pipelines, pipelines, TransCanada, WTI
Doesn’t need fed approval for that.
TransCanada said Monday that a 700,000 barrel-per-day Gulf Coast leg originally part of the Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL proposal is now a separate $2.3-billion US project that doesn’t require a cross-border presidential permit. Obama denied Keystone XL a construction permit in January, following a delay of the project last November caused by an extension of U.S. environmental review.
The link between an oversupplied Oklahoma oil storage hub and the world’s largest refining market in Texas will help relieve a glut in crude supply in the U.S. Midwest upon startup in mid to late 2013, the company said.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Canada, energy, fuel taxes, gas tax, gas taxes, gasoline, oil consumption, oil demand, transportation
In 2010, per liter.
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See also GAS TAXES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Caesium, cesium, China Syndrome, Fukushima, Iodine-131, leukemia, massive fail, meltdown, nuclear wreck, radiation, thyroid cancer
The outside annual radiation dose due to the radionuclides from the Fukushima accident is estimated to be 10 mSv in Naka-Dori, 40 mSv in Iitate, 0.2 mSv in the region between northern Ibaraki and eastern Saitama, and 2 mSv in southern Ibaraki and northern Chiba prefectures (note that the present estimate does not include the doses from short-lived radionuclides). No internal dose contribution is assumed in these estimations.
via PubMed: Assessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cantarell, crude oil production, energy, Ku Maloob Zaap, Mexican oil exports, Mexican oil production, Mexico, peak oil, Peak Oil is dead
I guess they haven’t heard that Peak Oil is dead. Once they get word, exports should jolly well pick right back up again.
State-owned Pemex said Friday the country exported 1.191 million barrels per day in the first month of 2012, the lowest level in 19 months and a drop from the 1.282 million bpd shipped in December.
The company sent 1.254 million bpd to refineries in Mexico in January, compared with 1.164 million in December.
via UPDATE 2-Mexico's January oil exports lowest since mid-2010 | Reuters.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, gasoline, Jevon's Paradox, mustachio'd, oil exports, OPEC, peak oil, porn 'stache, taco time, tacos, thoughtful man, Tom Friedman, transportation, Verleger
That’s what oil exporters do! Yup, we’re going to frack our production up about 200% over its current level, and get more efficient of course, and, of course, “do it right,” and then we’ll start exporting crude to those suckers in Japan and Europe. But first —
But all of this depends on an understanding between the oil industry and the environmentalists. If President Obama could pull that off, it would be a huge contribution to America’s security, economy and environment.
Yeah, that’s it. If we can just come to an understanding with the environmentalists, it’s OPEC time!
Friedman is unbelievably bad sometimes. Other times, believably so.
via http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/friedman-a-good-question.html
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: BP, British Petroleum, Defense Department, fuel for my tanks, my men can eat their belts, oil contracts, Patton, Pentagon, scorn
The scorn heaped upon BP (BP) Plc following the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history in 2010 wasn’t echoed at the U.S. Defense Department (USBODEFN). It stepped up purchases from the London-based company, making it the Pentagon’s biggest fuel supplier.
BP’s contracts with the military surged 33 percent to $1.35 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 from $1.02 billion in fiscal 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Government. BP received 49 percent more in defense contracts than the No. 2 fuel supplier, San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. (VLO)
via BP Wins Most Pentagon Fuel Awards in Year After Gulf of Mexico Explosion – Bloomberg.
“Scorn” heaped upon BP. Cash heaped upon BP.
Filed under: maps | Tags: cesium, Cesium-137, China Syndrome, contamination, Fukushima, meltdown, nuclear disaster, OMFG, radiation, radiation plume, USGS, wet deposition
Via EX-SKF — http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/02/usgs-paper-wet-deposition-of-fission.html
Via USGS — http://bqs.usgs.gov/fukushima/
Filed under: maps | Tags: persons per square mile, population density, rural, urbanization
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: exploding minivan, gas siphoning, gasoline theft, Peak minivan, peak oil, siphon, stealin' gas, Tampa
In Tampa, Fla., authorities say criminals used a minivan with a cutout floorboard, a pump and a big plastic container in an elaborate scheme to siphon gas directly from a gas station’s underground storage tank.
via U.S. News – Pain at the pump: Deputy interrupts elaborate gasoline theft.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crude oil, crude oil prices, EIA, energy, Energy Information Administration, NYMEX, oil price, oil price predictions, oil prices, peak oil, WTI
Via http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/er/early_prices.cfm
Consider in light of their historical track record, which has … not been good.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: average gas prices in US, Barry Ritholtz, energy, gas prices, gasoline supplies, historic gasoline price chart, oil consumption, peak oil, retail prices for gasoline, the Big Picture, transportation
Another look, via Barry Ritholtz’ Big Picture Blog:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/prices-at-the-pump-on-the-rise/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alliance for Biking and Walking, Andy Clarke, Bikes Belong, Bikes Belong Coalition, LAB, League of American Bicyclists, League of American Wheelmen, Thunderhead Alliance
The leadership of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, Bikes Belong, and the League of American Bicyclists has agreed that uniting the three organizations would dramatically improve their effectiveness in increasing bicycle use in U.S. communities. Leaders of the three groups issued a joint statement summarizing the outcome of their recent meeting in San Diego, February 13-14.
via the horse’s mouth: http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2012/02/new-national-plan-to-transform-bicycling/
I’m currently filing this one under hmmm….
UPDATE: Hearing that this is far from a done deal. Still filing under hmmm…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crack spread, crude oil and gasoline prices, energy, fuel prices, gas prices, James Hamilton, oil price, peak oil, petrol, petroleum, WTI
My rule of thumb has been that for every $1 increase in the price of a barrel of crude oil, U.S. consumers are likely to pay 2-1/2 more cents for a gallon of gasoline.
Hamilton points to the lack of adequate pipeline infrastructure in the US to explain the gap between Brent and WTI.
via http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/02/crude_oil_and_g.html
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