Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down
Britain’s future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up.
Transportation
Transport – May 27
Congestion charge key to Manchesters £3bn transport revolution
End of the line looms for Edinburgh transport plan
Energy availability modelling raises crucial transport issues
Gridlock choking life out of Melbourne
Urban & transport – May 26
Mayday 23: world population becomes more urban than rural
Density, compact communities and smart growth
NYT: Get moving on traffic relief for New York City (congestion pricing)
Climate policy – May 26
California acts to limit use of coal power
Climate change activists plan Heathrow camp
Flying addicts take dim view of air taxes in poll
Gas prices – May 26
Stage set for $US80 oil prices
OPEC official sees no need for more crude
Oil industry preps for Gulf storm season
Gas prices – May 25
Petrol to hit £1 a litre within week in UK
Poll: Gas costs hurt, but many adjust
TOD readers on oil companies & gas prices
Wis. gas station shuts pumps over prices
House passes gas profiteering bill, but misses target
Oil exec calls on Americans to cut demand
LA Times: Don’t blame oil companies, blame us
MarketWatch: There’s more to it
Transport – May 24
How to shift our transport paradigm: Learning from Grenoble
Tourism execs encounter guilt trip on green issues
Railroads bask in Buffett favor
Unhappy motoring
Dangerously low inventories make spot shortages and sudden, large price increases real possibilities. As they gas up their cars, Americans gripe about the costs and look for scapegoats… the days of happy motoring are gone.
Gas prices – May 24
Richard Heinberg on high fuel prices
Poll: Prices must go way higher to alter driving
NYT: Graphs of gas prices
Gas price spike longest on record
TOD: Saudi Arabia and gas prices
Oil industry says biofuel push may hurt at pump
Gouging bill stripped down
Oil company profits and high gas prices – May 23
TOD: Here we go again
Impact of rising gas prices ‘fairly limited’, economists say
API conference call on gas prices
MoveOn: Are you feeling gouged?
House passes gasoline gouging bill
The peak oil crisis: The minimum operating level
The size of our gasoline stockpile has become an important number, not only for everyone who drives, but also for the future of our economy… If stockpiles – on either coast – drop much more, we are going to find out, the hard way, exactly where the minimal operating level is, for that will be the day the shortages develop.
Peak oil – May 22
Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate
Peak Oil- films to wake the sleeping
International Energy Outlook of the EIA/DOE is released
Man-in-the-street reporter bumps into “Peak Oil Man”
