Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: freedom, fuel subsidies, justice, Lagos, Nigeria, peak oil, protests, Shell, truth
Gas prices more than doubled overnight. There were other frustrations behind the protests, for instance lack of freedom, truth and justice.
Will’s latest offering — “America’s Oil Boom” — seems designed to perpetuate confusion about the export surplus in petroleum products, which Will does not ascribe to economic depression, unemployment and the substantial drop in miles traveled, but to “abundance.” I suspect he misunderstands the issue even as he attempts to obscure it.
He may be right about the insidious nature of “progressives,” whoever they are. But what if there really is energy scarcity. Can Will and his fellow obscurants successfully blame that on “progressives” as well? They’re going to give it a good try.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: disposal well, earthquakes, frac, fracking, fracking waste, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus, Ohio, shale gas, shale oil, Youngstown
Youngstown Injection Well Stays Shut After Earthquake – NYTimes.com.
Operations halted after the latest quake was pinpointed just below the disposal well.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, England, fuel costs, gas prices, Great Britain, imports, petrol, Vmt
Drivers cut short journeys by 165 miles to beat fuel costs – Telegraph.
The headline of the article (concerning ‘the Why’) is an editorialization not entirely supported by the facts within it. Interesting.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colfax, EPA, Home Depot, IHOP, radioactivity, radium, ROBCO, Shattuck, superfund, uranium, vanadium
A list from the EPA… This page has more detailed information on history of the sites and various remediation efforts. The EPA and City of Denver consider this situation to be generally cleaned up and finished.
The site of the Home Depot on Santa Fe had 97000 tons of radium-infused soil removed. Denver is a dirty bomb.
I like how the Purple Haze and former I-Hop on East Colfax somehow got zapped with radioactive waste. (2000-block east, north side of street.) They’re not exactly sure how. Maybe the scientist from Repo Man went by there.
“Sure is a beautiful night… Can almost … see the stars.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, driving, energy, energy consumption, transportation, Vmt, young drivers
Thought update: Decline in teen driving could very well be the big reason behind the decline in road fatalities in the US, which has gone begging for a proper explanation. As the average US driver ages, the driving population also becomes much safer — just like the cycling population. (Very old drivers are probably more likely than teen drivers to crash, however.)
http://ur.umich.edu/1112/Dec05_11/2933-fewer-young-but
But there are more fogies on the roads.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cantarell, crude oil, exports, imports, Mexico, oil production, peak oil, Pemex, refining capacity
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pemex-oil-output-slips-for-7th-year-2011-12-31
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: 1971, Amtrak, Gregor McDonald, Obama, passenger rail, rail, railway map, transport, transportation
Via Gregor McDonald’s blog, showing massive loss of inter-urban lines from ’62 to ’71. Gregor calls on Obama to support passenger rail.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: collapse, cornucopianism, Do the Math, limits to growth, peak oil, Tom Murphy
Found myself in strong agreement with this blog post from Tom Murphy.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: exports, James Hamilton, petroleum, pipelines, product pipelines, Suncor, transport, transportation, United States
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The blue lines are product pipelines. Greens are oil and reds are gas.
From this James Hamilton post on the petroleum product net export situation.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Iran, maps, saber-rattling, Strait of Hormuz
http://www.insideofiran.org/en/news/1753-iran-guards-ready-to-close-strait-of-hormuz.html
It’s over here. From the NYT, Dec. 25, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/asia/in-china-the-wukan-revolt-could-be-a-harbinger.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, DOT, energy, vehicle miles traveled, Vmt
Holy mackerel, vehicle miles driven continues to drop. Now 47 months and counting below the previous peak.
Feds’ numbers: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/tvtw/11octtvt/index.cfm
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, crude oil, Ed Walsh, energy, gasoline, Iran, oil price, peak oil, Tom Keene, WTI
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2001, 2009, commuting, National Household Travel Survey, time in vehicles, transportation, Vmt
From the 2009 National Household Travel Survey.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Black Canyon Highway, Boulder Dam, Colorado River, energy, Hoover Dam, hydroelectric power, spillways
Been writing a little bit about flood control, dams and spillways recently.
Enjoy your Christmas everybody.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electricity, peak oil, Saudi Arabia, solar energy
Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for its continued reliance on oil to generate electricity. Its power plants consume 800,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent, Ziyad Al Shiha, the executive director of Saudi Aramco Power Systems, told reporters in May. With the price of crude above US$100 a barrel on international markets, the opportunity cost is high, making investments in alternative sources of power more attractive.
via Saudis kicking off major move into solar – The National.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Bow River, Canada, Cenex, crude oil, Enbridge, Express, North America, oil pipelines, pipelines, Rangeland, Suncor, tar sands, Trans-Mountain
Note — does not show product pipelines.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 