Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike, cycling, exercise, Parkinson's Disease
Bicycling is really good for you.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: frac, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, Marcellus Shale, New York, transportation, truck traffic
From http://www.un-naturalgas.org/NYSDOT%20Transportation%20Impacts%20Paper.pdf
Per well:
…and will find a way to pay for it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/13/india-iran-imports-idUSL3E8CD05S20120113
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Econbrowser, energy, gas tax, gasoline tax, Holland, James Hamilton, Knittel, petrol taxes, transportation
Via Econbrowser, writing about Knittel’s new paper.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, Iran, Iran sanctions, Japan, oil imports, oil trade, Turkey
My sense is that Iran and China can work things out without “the international financial system.” Curious policy from the U.S. now, could work very much in China’s favor.
U.S allies like Japan appear to support the sanctions by “reducing” their oil imports from Iran by some unknown amount.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: efficiency, horsepower, Knittel, mpg, vehicle weight
From a paper by Christopher Knittel in American Economic Review (pdf).
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/cars-on-steroids-0104.html
click to enlarge
Since 1980, horsepower has more than doubled, and average weight has gone way up, so mpg gains have been largely canceled.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, exports, Geithner, Iran, Iran sanctions, oil imports, petroleum
The terms of the sanctions set arbitrarily by US govt. Could see this coming from the cheap seats.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/asia/china-balks-as-geithner-presses-on-iran-curbs.html
And let’s just keep this little bit handy —
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drilling, frac, frack, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, Natural gas, regulation, shale gas, shale oil, shale play
…with one day left in comment period.
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…especially if you completely ignore the millions of gallons of toxic waste water and dozens or even hundreds of tons of solid waste that result from every frac, as this curious little article in New Scientist does:
Fracking risk is exaggerated – environment – 11 January 2012 – New Scientist.
Some of the water is recycled. It’s unclear exactly how much.
Steve Jobs didn’t have to set up his business with such poor conditions for those making all the Apple products, but he chose to do that. And we chose to buy them. But that blissful ignorance is breaking down.
Correction: My brother tells me these are Bill Gates’ slaves, not Steve Jobs’ slaves. Building XBoxes.
Filed under: Uncategorized
From Gregor Macdonald, noting price per million BTUs, and the tremendous discount for North American natural gas over oil and natural gas overseas. Click for chart:
Prices-for-a-Million-btu-Buy-Source-in-USD1.png 579×579 pixels.
Filed under: maps | Tags: exploration, Iraqi civil war, Kirkuk, kurdistan, Kurds, Natural gas, oil, petroleum, Shamaran Petroleum
High-res pdf from Shamaran Petroleum.
Added to the I.C. Energy & Transport Page.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Anbar, energy, Israel, Kirkuk, kurdistan, Mosul, oil, oil production, pipelines, supply lines, Turkey
…may be impossible.
From a very interesting article on the potential of oil production from Iraqi Kurdistan at the Oil Drum.
There’s a lot to consider on this map.
Filed under: Bike of the Day | Tags: bicycle, fixed gear, fixed wheel, fixie, hipster
I saw this and immediately wanted to go carve traffic on my way to Pablo’s Coffee House.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ENI, exemptions, Iran, Iran sanctions, Italy
Via Reuters…
Let’s see.. That’s S. Korea, India and Italy so far.
Filed under: maps | Tags: bicycle, bicycling advocacy, bike, cycling infrastructure, Jefferson County, pedestrian, recreation, transportation
That’s Jeffco, Colorado, comprising the western suburbs of Denver. There are a lot of Jeffco’s around.
click for pdf
They are seeking comments here: http://www.jeffco.us/bike-plan
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bond yields, economic meltdown, EU, Euro breakup, eurozone, Italian bonds
Via Econbrowser via Bloomberg.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Armenia, Caucasus, Chechnya, Georgia, kurdistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg
click to enlarge
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle theft, bicycles, bike theft, fixed gear, fixies, hipsters
Bicycle thefts surging – SGVTribune.com.
Operative word was. For sixteen weeks in 1992.
This is an interesting take on bike theft. Now they want fixed gear bikes as well as the old road frames for conversions. Used to be thieves were completely uninterested in both types.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 
