Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, CPSC, helmet, helmet recall, Triple Eight
These cheap helmets distributed by Triple Eight are recalled for failing CPSC requirements. Which is the first time I’ve ever heard of that happening. Not saying it doesn’t. I’ve just never heard that one before.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/50268/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: AeroScout, COTEMAR, fascism, OMFG, Pemex, RFID, RTLS, surveillance, tagging humans
In their living quarters, mind you. Next step — tags implanted under the skin. As a condition of employment. You want a job don’t you? What – you got something to hide??
COTEMAR, which services oil and gas platforms operated by Mexico’s largest petroleum company, has deployed AeroScout’s Real-Time Location System (RTLS) on four of its offshore housing vessels that support PEMEX’s oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
via RIGZONE – COTEMAR Tracks Offshore Workers with RFID Tags.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Azerbaijan, demand, demand destruction, depletion, OECD, OPEC, peak oil, supply
He said, “Any disappointments on the demand side have on average been outweighed by disappointments on the supply side, and in particular the spectacular deceleration in non-OPEC supply after the first quarter started off on a strong note with non-OPEC supply in January increasing by almost 1 million b/d, continuing the momentum seen across the fourth quarter of 2010.” Despite strong growth in production of unconventional liquids, non-OPEC supply growth virtually ground to a halt. Horsnell blamed underperformance in the North Sea, technical issues in Brazil and Azerbaijan, decline rates in China, fires in Canada, strikes in Kazakhstan, and geopolitical disruptions in Sudan, Yemen, and Syria.
“The only bright spot has been the US where the momentum in oil shales has continued to tick higher, helping offset some of the weakness from the rest of the world,” he said.
via 2011: 'Odd year' for oil – Oil & Gas Journal.
Could be what Peak Oil looks like.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Keystone pipeline, Keystone XL, keystone xl pipeline, Mike Klink, oil sands, tar sands, TransCanada
Appeared in Journal Star on December 31, 2011. Klink says TransCanada does shoddy work with shoddy materials, spills a lot of oil out of their pipelines, and calls it success.
Mike Klink: Keystone XL pipeline not safe.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: commodities inflation, food price index, food prices, inflation, UN
Appears to have doubled in ten years.
From the UN Report on the World Food Situation.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: civil war, Iraq, Sadr City, Shia, Shiite, Sunnis
The bombers choice of Sadr City as a target appeared designed to cause as much rage among Iraq’s Shia majority as possible.
The district, home to more than 3m Shias, is one of the most sensitive in the country, providing many of the recruits that have served in radical militias like the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand Shia cleric.
via Wave of bombings across Iraq leaves more than 70 dead – Telegraph.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, nuclear power, Plant Scherer, smart but not wises, tsnumi-catching nuke plants, tsunami danger, USGS
…Plant Scherer, Georgia.
From Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005, USGS (pdf).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crude oil, depletion, IEA, oil predictions, peak oil, petroleum, production, Rech
Q: What do you foresee? Let’s begin with the non-OPEC producers (which represent 58% of production and 23% of global reserves).
Rech: Outside OPEC, things are clear: of 40 million barrels per day (mb/d) of conventional petroleum extracted from existing fields, we face an annual decline on the order of 1 to 2 mb/d.
via Oil will decline shortly after 2015, says former oil expert of International Energy Agency | Oil Man.
Roughly 5% annual decline in conventional supply ongoing.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bob Beamon, Iran, Iranian Revolution, North Sea, oil supply, supply disruption
“If Hormuz was to be disrupted, we’re talking the biggest disruption the oil market has ever seen,” said Blanch.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, and that’s why we think it’s very unlikely,” he said.
via Bottom Line – Iran oil standoff could mean higher gas prices.
The disruption associated with the Iranian Revolution in ’79 holds the current record. Even Bob Beamon’s record got taken out. (Didn’t it?)
After that disruption, the global supply problem was temporarily fixed in large part due to huge reservoirs that were discovered many years prior to the Iranian Revolution, in Alaska and the N. Sea, coming on line.
This time, we have cooked sand.
Filed under: Uncategorized
South Korean refiners purchased 190,000 bpd (barrels per day) from Iran last year, according to the Reuters news agency. The country, which rates as the fifth-largest oil importer in the world, will meet with the U.S. to request an exemption from sanctions signed into law by President Barack Obama on Saturday. The sanctions could block refiners from paying for Iranian oil.
via South Korea Increases Oil Deal with Iran – Global Agenda – News – Israel National News.
You see how this works now.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken Shale, Barnett Shale, drilling rigs, dry gas, Eagle Ford, energy, gas drilling, LNG, Marcellus, methane, Natural gas, production, rig counts, shale gas, shale plays, tight gas
From a detailed article at Rigzone. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=113890&hmpn=1
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, energy, light vehicle sales, SAAR, transportation
13.5 something or other. Slight decrease from November. From Calculated Risk…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike, bike repair, fixstation, Fixtation, repair stand, Vending machine
Yeah. That’s totally normal.
From an article in Vending Times.
I wonder how many sizes of spokes they have in that thing.
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: maps | Tags: energy, Europe, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, pipelines, trade
According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 Review.
click to enlarge
Companies working in the US want to put another LNG line from here to Euro. Domestic nat gas price probably too low to make much dough.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 