Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: EIA, energy, energy outlook, oil, peak oil, predictions
These projections are looking sillier and sillier in graphic form.
This is what Hope looks like via EIA:
Of course there is also a ditch over on the left side of the graph, which breeds hope for the future among fans of energy use. But we came out of that ditch with Alaskan and N. Sea oil, and more Saudi oil. This time, we expect cooked sand and “tight oil” to pull us out of the total energy ditch?
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: 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: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, New Zealand, oil spill, petroleum, Rena, tanker, transport
“The wreck of the Greek-owned Rena was described as New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster even before the rear section of the ship, lashed by pounding seas, broke away yesterday. The ship has already spilled heavy fuel oil that fouled pristine North Island beaches and killed up to 20,000 seabirds, and despite salvage efforts nearly 400 tonnes of oil remain onboard.”
via New Zealand braces for oil spill as Rena splits on reef | The Australian
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: 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: 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.
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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.
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: 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: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Natural gas, net energy, pipelines, transportation
From the EIA.
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipelines_map.html
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Canada, energy, Natural gas, pipeline, TransCanada
Fixed or increasing costs, declining revenue.
From the Toronto Star,
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colin McInnes, energy, Peak Demand, Peak Energy, peak oil, Richard Henberg, The End of Growth
Economic growth: it’s not dead yet | Colin McInnes | spiked.
In this bit McInnes argues that economic growth can continue after Peak Oil — citing as evidence all the wonderful engineering which occurred in the cheap oil era and which depended on cheap oil for its existence. I find his argument less persuasive and more simplistic than the ‘doomer’ arguments he is criticizing.
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.
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