Economics – Apr 11
Fuel costs just part of airlines’ list of woes
Energy price controls in China
Predicting the end of the commodity bubble
Climate change opportunity
Transportation
Green car checklist
The species homo automobilicus would much rather wait for technological silver bullets than adopt lifestyle changes – especially as regards unlimited personal motorized mobility.
The peak oil crisis: The first shortages
Fuel prices alone are unlikely to bring America to its senses. It clearly will take outright shortages with lines at the pumps, curtailed deliveries and many other misfortunes before serious measures –- speed limits, rationing, mandatory car pools, improved mass transit — are taken.
Transport – Apr 8
Ten reasons why NYC’s congestion pricing plan went belly up
Truckers hit the brakes over high price of diesel
Railroads expanding at a record clip
More trains for Grand Central Station
Peak oil – Apr 6
How realistic is EIA’s US domestic oil supply and demand forecast?
Byron King: The U.S. oil supply – a look at our future oil needs
Peak oil and “Transport Revolutions” (new book)
How long can oil fuel our leisure?
Housing & urban design – Apr 3
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
Transport – Apr 3
Truckers protest high fuel prices
Life without transport by oil is closer than we think
Former Exxon insider: People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
Aloha Airlines halting passenger service
First things first
An epic battle is shaping up between those concerned about climate change and those seeking to lower their transportation fuel costs and enhance their energy security. But is this the right battle for Americans to fight?
Oil prices – Apr 1
Indonesia feels pinch as oil, commodity prices surge
Truckers to protest fuel costs
China diesel rationed, despite government pledges
Peak oil – Apr 1
WSJ: Billionaire cashes in on offshore oil rush
Peak oil = transportation revolution
M. King Hubbert on the nature of growth
Transport – Mar 30
$1,200 a month fuels long commutes
Stuck in our cars on the highway to hell
Airlines lighten up to cut fuel costs
A response to Romm on peak oil
It’s high-time for climate activists to wake up and smell the coffee on peak oil. Peak oil problems are immediate and inimical to our ability to solve all the other problems we have — including climate.
