Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle commuting, bicycle transportation, bicycling, bike, bike commuting, bike path, bikeways, biking, Boulder, commuter bikeway, Denver-Boulder, MUP, transportation, US 36
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.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: albatross, cash for clunkers, energy, February 2012 SAAR, light vehicle sales, oil consumption, peak oil, SAAR, transportation
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/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Iran, Iran oil exports, Iran oil production, Iran oil trade, Iran sanctions, Pakistan, petroleum, sanctions
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.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: census, durable goods, durable goods orders, economy, january 2012
http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf
click link for entire pdf
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: auto bailout, bailouts, car dealers, cash for clunkers, channel stuffing, energy, General Motors, GM, Government Motors, inventory, new car inventory, peak oil, transportation
via Zero Hedge:
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.
click to enlarge
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: 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.
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