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.’
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: 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
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: air travel, anthropocene, energy, transatlantic
http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
transatlantic air routes
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cycling, efficiency, energy, kilocalories, mpg, transportation
Murphy gives about the same figures I came up with for Cyclist’s Manifesto. —-> 1000 mpg for cycling.
First sentence of the abstract of an article by Gagnon, Hall, Brinker, 1999. Raises spectre of badly declining EROI.
Article added to ENERGY AND TRANSPORT PAGE.
Just a quick reminder … if your barrels require more and more energy to produce, you will need more and more barrels to maintain the same level of net energy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, energy, gas prices, Natural Born Drillers, oil prices, Paul Krugman, peak oil
…Although he does make other good points, like Yergin, in service of his argument of the day.
…Oil prices are up because of rising demand from China and other emerging economies, and more recently because of war scares in the Middle East; these forces easily outweigh any downward pressure on prices from rising U.S. production.
via Natural Born Drillers – NYTimes.com.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 