Industrialized Cyclist Notepad


Sometimes you have to go to Canada to find people who understand the concept of depletion

Like this Eric Reguly character of the Globe and Mail:

Why hasn’t the high price triggered a production surge? The biggie, it seems, is that the non-OPEC countries are simply not up to the job. As Barclays points out, non-OPEC supply last year landed at a full one million barrels a day less than forecast by the International Energy Agency. The North Sea (whose production is shared by Britain and Norway) continued its terminal decline. Brazil and Azerbaijan were also the scenes of production disappointments.

Meanwhile, OPEC, dominated by Saudi Arabia, is sweating exceedingly hard. OPEC production volumes are at three-year highs, to the point that the cartel has only about 1.6 million barrels a day of spare capacity, and still prices are climbing.

via CTV News | All the signs point to a falling oil price – except supply.



U.S. 36 project still includes ‘commuter bikeway’

Which is awesome.

The first phase of the project — from Federal to 88th Street — includes:

• Adding an express lane in each direction of U.S. 36, where bus rapid transit and high-occupancy vehicles can travel, free of charge. Solo drivers also will be able to use the express lane by paying a toll, the cost of which will vary by the time of day.

• Reconstructing existing pavement on U.S. 36 and widening the highway to accommodate 12-foot inside and outside shoulders.

• Replacing the Wadsworth Parkway, Wadsworth Boulevard (at West 112th Avenue) and Lowell Boulevard bridges over U.S. 36.

• Installing a separate commuter bikeway along much of the corridor.

via U.S. 36 from Boulder to Denver to get $311 million in improvements – The Denver Post.



Looking more like 2008 all the time

via Rortybomb (who took the chart from Calculated Risk). MK is very excited about the auto numbers that came out today.

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/auto-sales-surpass-cash-for-clunkers-month/



Iran offers to front Pakistan 80,000 bpd

First one’s free. Yeah.. If you like it, you know where to find me. Tell your friends.

“It is only an initial offer of 80,000 barrels on deferred payment at the moment,” Irfan Qazi, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, told Reuters.

via Iran offers Pakistan 80,000 bpd of oil – official | Reuters.



January durable goods orders down 4%
March 1, 2012, 17:51
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http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf


click link for entire pdf



Just in time for the spike in gas prices

via Zero Hedge:



Bike of the Day: Kona Ute
March 1, 2012, 01:07
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Dang. That’s long.




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