Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: debt as percentage of gap, debt to GDP, euro, eurozone, EZ, financial crash, GDP, meltdown
From Credit Writedowns..
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alaska, Bakken, bell curve, fracking, freaking, Gold Rush, Hubbert's Peak, hydraulic fracturing, Klondike, Montana, Nome, North Dakota, North Slope, oil production, peak oil, Prudhoe Bay, shale oil, shale plays, Sutter's Mill, tight oil
This is an excellent article by Derik Andreoli, looking at the historical big picture of American extraction booms.
The Oil Drum | The Bakken Boom – A Modern-Day Gold Rush.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crude plus condensate, Jeffrey Brown, oil production, peak oil, petroleum, production prediction, westtexas, Yergin
Chart by Jeffrey Brown (aka “westtexas”).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: car life cycle, carbon balance, carbon dioxide, CO2, global warming, transportation
The European Cyclists’ Federation just put out a study on CO2 emissions and the possible savings that might come from additional cycling in the EU.
QUANTIFYING CYCLING’S CO2 SAVINGS (pdf)
[just one of several interesting graphics from this report]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike paths, Bobin, Calgary, commuting, infrastructure, MUP, planning, tacos, urban planning
Tom Babin, “Path popularity creating planning problem,” Calgary Herald, Dec. 10, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: confusion, Curtis Robinson, energy, exports, imports, Portland Daily Sun
http://portlanddailysun.me/node/30737/
Portland Daily Sun founding editor Curtis Robinson is also badly confused about the significance of the refinery products exporting “milestone.” What happens when your editor needs an editor? That WSJ article has spread absolute carnage through the newsrooms of America…
Trick question indeed.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, energy illiteracy, exports, fracking, imports, Nestlerode, peak oil, production, State College
From statecollege.com, Dec. 4, 2011.
…very quietly, I guess.
The author Dan Nestlerode is apparently the Director of Research at his firm. Ouch Dan!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: coal, energy, energy intensity, Offshoring
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electric vehicles, energy, EVs, Nissan Leaf
Ouch on the $2000 home charging station installation.
Answers about charging Nissan LEAF | Nissan USA.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: EIA, energy balance, energy independence, exports, imports, primary energy, total BTUs
For the people (especially journalists) who have written that the US is now a “net energy exporter.”
From EIA data: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf (pdf)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Exxon, oil, oil supply predictions, peak oil, production
http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article666169.ece
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Christiophe de Margerie, energy, energy balance, Exxon Mobil, imports, media lies, peak oil, Tillerson, Total
New oil strikes keep oil prices on the defensive (USO, PTR, TOT, XOM) – NASDAQ.com.
“For the first time in a long time, the United States is a net energy exporter.”
Ah no. Not by a long shot. The US is now a net exporter of refinery products. Still a massive importer of petroleum and ‘energy.’
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/12/aar-rail-traffic-increased-in-november.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, exports, fracking, imports, Natural gas
BP STATISTICAL REVIEW OF WORLD ENERGY, NAT. GAS PRICES
Notice how the price in the US is about half the average German import price for 2010.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, consumption, demand, EIA, exports, flow chart, imports, Natural gas, production, supply
From: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/diagram3.cfm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Conoco, energy, energy independence, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, production
… the oil and gas companies will export overseas if they can make a buck off of it when prices ‘collapse’ in the US. This pretty much fracks the whole idea of drilling for ‘energy independence.’ The only thing independent here is the oil/gas company.
Ross Kelly, “Conoco Studying North America’s Gas Export Potential,” Rigzone, Dec. 8, 2011
Behemoth liquid-cooled GM Volt batteries may catch fire after crashes.
http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2011/12/ap_source_coolant_leak_likely.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike commuting, commuting, denver, mode share
…with a whopping 2.2% mode share.
From http://denverurbanism.com/2011/10/denver-hits-2-2-bicycle-commuter-mode-share-for-2010.html and the Community Survey.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 