The House Energy/Climate bill

The first major energy/climate legislation has begun to take shape, and it is worth looking to see what the House seems to think is the way ...

P57. Pick Points

Over at The Oil Drum, Jon Friese has a guest post with an interesting plot of the relative drilling activity in the four major gas shale f...

Why we aren't buying a new car (yet)

I have mentioned earlier this year that we are thinking of buying a car. In fact we are planning on replacing an eleven-year old vehicle w...

P56. Pick Points

I see that Jerome is a little upset with the NYT story about coal and renewable energy costs. In the story the question is raised as to h...

T8. Carbon Dioxide and Atmospheric Radiation

One of the factors that is more and more being considered in deciding how the nations of the world will, in the future, provide energy for t...

More thoughts while traveling - OPEC, the Tata Nano, and tides

In all fairness, since I was less than totally complementary to British transport services the other day , it is only balanced to note that,...

Of gasoline demand and automobile fuel production.

It being a Wednesday, there is a new TWIP report out , and so we try and interpret what they had said and what it suggests for the future. A...

P55. Pick Points

Given the size of a couple of the stories a little less than half-a-dozen stories of interest today: Redoubt, the volcano in Alaska that wa...

More Traveling Thoughts

The visit to Dalry today was fairly short, but I was thinking of stopping at Blackcraig Wind Farm Site to take a photo, yet though I drove...

British Public Transport is so easy, and convenient

Hmm! Well this was going to be a post on American driving habits, but instead it is going to be on the downside of relying on British public...

P54. Pick Points

So here it is the weekend, and I would usually be putting up Saturday Pick Points, and the Saturday post, with Sunday’s Tech Talk in the win...

My excuses and a natural gas thought

Hmm! Tomorrow I get to go and give the report that brought me all the way over the Atlantic, and so this perforce must be brief, since even ...

TWIP, gasoline and NGL's

For the last few weeks I have been following the amount of gasoline that EIA tabulates in their “This Week in Petroleum” ( TWIP ) reports. ...

P53. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories that might be of interest: There does appear to be a little recognition out there now that oil prices have hit a ...

Of hybrids and algae

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, we are thinking of getting a second hybrid in the family, with thoughts turning toward the Ford Fusio...