Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: coaches, economy, government, public employees, USA #1, WTF
Sad-larious.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crude oil, Egypt, energy, oil exports, oil production, peak oil
via Energy Export Databrowser:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, Boise, Idaho stop, stop as yield, urban cycling
The City of Boise Cycling Safety Task Force, 2009, composed mostly of law enforcement officials:
…Moreover, the Task Force largely agrees that bicycles, by nature of their mass, speed, maneuverability and lack of protection for the rider, are sufficiently different from automobiles to deserve separate treatment under the law.
CITY OF BOISE CYCLING SAFETY TASK FORCE FINAL REPORT 2009 (pdf).
Thanks to Rick Price for showing me this.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alta Planning, bike share, Citi Bike, Citibank, Citibike, NYC, Shiti, Shitibank
May not amount to much.
One possible interpretation of this story:
A system that is already proving to be ‘safe’ despite a barrage of pre-launch propaganda needed more bad press.
The security breach was discovered and corrected “at the end of May” and affected 1,174 customers who signed up for $95 annual memberships to the program, said Seth Solomonow, a spokesman for the city Department of Transportation, which launched Citi Bike and controls all of the system’s communications to the public.
He did not explain the delay between the identification of the security flaw and notification of affected users.
According to NYC Bike Share LLC, a local subsidiary of system operator Alta Bicycle Share, an “error log” containing personal data on Citi Bike account holders was “briefly accessible” on the system’s website on April 15. The error was corrected as soon as it was discovered, NYC Bike Share President Michael Jones said in the letter.
via Citi Bike Accidentally Exposes Customer Credit Card Information – Metropolis – WSJ.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, Cadel Evans, contenders, Froome, Ryder Hesjedal, scenery, Tour de France
Contenders missing
It wasn’t much of a race
Nice scenery though
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Branham, Colorado Trail, continental divide, CTR, Durango, Indian Trail Ridge, Jefe, Jesse Jakomait, Kennebec Pass, Marshall Pass, Molas, mountain bike endurance racing, mountain biking, MTB, Silverton
UPDATE: Jefe Branham won again. Legendary.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crude oil, Cushing, energy, Keystone pipeline, North Sea, oil prices, WTI
West Texas Intermediate crude became more expensive than Brent for the first time in almost three years as pipeline and rail shipments helped clear a bottleneck that reduced the price of the U.S. benchmark.
WTI hadn’t been higher than Brent since Aug. 17, 2010. The move was in intraday trading. WTI averaged $17.47 less than Brent in 2012 and traded as much as $23.44 lower than its European counterpart Feb. 8.
Improved pipeline networks and the use of rail links are helping to ease the North American oil glut created by rising production of crude from shale formations. WTI has jumped 18 percent this year, while Brent has decreased 2.5 percent as North Sea supplies stabilized after maintenance.
via WTI Crude Exceeds Brent for First Time in Almost Three Years – Bloomberg.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Contador, dreams, Froome, jens, Jens Voigt, Nairo Quintana, Quintana, Rodriguez, Tour de France
Jens got swallowed up
As is typical with dreams
At least Nairo won
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alp d'Huez, Alpe d'Huez, Froome, Marco Pantani, pirata, Riblon, Tour de France
Slower than Marco
So nobody is doping
Feel so much better
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alpe d'Huez, BMC, Roblin, Teejay, Tour de France, Van Garderen
Oh TeJay Van G
We saw your winning effort
And your second place
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, biking, cycling, Fort Collins, Idaho stop, Rick Price, stop as yield, urban biking, urban cycling
But I think it’s time we talked about the feasibility of allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs. This would solve a lot of problems and create some opportunities.
via Price: Do cyclists really need to stop at stop signs? | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com.
It would probably cause some problems too, but would be an overall positive.
Deliberate signal infractions by bicyclists aren’t nearly as dangerous as people think, or as dangerous as people would like. The evidence is overwhelming.
Right on, Rick.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: food poisoning, projectile vomiting, stomach flu, time trial, Tour de France
No idea who won
The hillclimbers’ time trial
Vomiting instead
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 4th Amendment, energy costs, gas prices, Mark Udall, oil production, Randy Udall, Wyden
“Our people want to know why the flood of new domestic crude oil isn’t lowering prices at the pump,” said Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “There is no question that the lower oil costs are not getting through to Americans’ wallets.”
via Senators Grill Refiners Over High Prices Amid Oil Boom – Bloomberg.
If Wyden is this clueless about energy — what “lower oil costs”? — it does not give a fellar confidence that he is an effective guardian of civil liberties (Wyden is on the Senate Intelligence Committee which is supposedly a check on the executive branch’s surveillance fetish). Is he just trying to get someone from the industry to admit the truth, or is he really that out of it.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beloki, Contador, Froome, Joseba Beloki, Lance Armstrong, Stage 9, Tour de France
Beloki’s descent
We find ourselves rooting for
The finger banger
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: baddest, Froome, Giant, Mont Ventoux, provence, Team Skye, Tom Simpson, Tour de France, Vaughters
Giant of Provence
I thought you were the baddest
But you got Froomered
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Enefit, eroei, Hrenko, kerogen, oil shale, Orrin Hatch, tons of sense, WTF
The Bureau of Land Management has initiated an environmental review of the right-of-way Enefit needs for its proposed utility corridor, which would connect its mine and processing plant to the Bonanza Power Plant outside Vernal. The corridor would also carry a 16-inch pipeline to Chevron’s east-to-west line that runs 11.5 miles north of the mine, as well as an 8-inch natural gas line, a 30-inch water line and a second 138-kilovolt power line. The pipelines would run underground.
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The story goes on…
But Hrenko stressed that Enefit’s “retort” process uses no water, although some will be needed for dust control and returning spent shale to the mine for reclamation….
And…
“It’s an extremely efficient process where we produce all the power to operate the project and we’ll put power into the grid,” Hrenko said.
via Hearings set as firm moves forward with Utah oil shale development | The Salt Lake Tribune.
Don’t need water or power but we need a 30-inch water pipe, a natural gas pipeline and a mainline to the nearest power plant.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cavendish, Contador, cross winds, Tour de France
Cross-winds blew the race
Into desperate factions
something to look at
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: castle to castle, Cavendish, Kittel, Tour de France
Castle to castle
peloton swiftly pedaled
Kittel wants it more
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Burkholder, energy, Lac-Magentic, liquid propane, LNG, oil transportation, propane, trains
He said it appears that the train derailed at the curve and slammed into railroad cars carrying liquid propane. He said a Lac-Megantic resident, a “rail fan” who monitors activity at the yard, told him that he saw four propane cars Friday on the same storage track.Burkholder would not name his source, but said the Lac-Megantic resident had given accurate information about train movements in the past.He said liquid propane is transported under pressure and is more likely than crude oil to create the kind of explosion that destroyed much of downtown Lac-Megantic. Crude oil is not transported under pressure, he said.Burkholder said aerial photographs show that the vast majority of the tank cars carrying oil remain “intact and solid.””Its very clear that the oil train itself didnt crash and blow up,” he said. “Its what it crashed into.”
via Propane suspected in Canada explosions | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
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