The Japanese fuel crisis

One consequence of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that is not receiving as much press as the ongoing struggle to cool the damaged react...

The UK winter starts - salt, coal, and natural gas supplies

The severe weather that is sweeping the United Kingdom is posing an early demand on the stored supplies of fuel, and on the grit supplies th...

The Russia:Belarus oil dispute and Western Oil supplies

I hadn’t actually been paying much attention to the Russian:Belarus dispute over oil supplies. After the annual debacles that we are used t...

P25. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: What to do about the contradiction that rising commuter traffic is moving to metro train and bus lin...