A pair of articles in the NY Time focuses on one of the more perverse aspects of our current energy/climate amalgam of ugliness: Flaring natural gas. The thumbnail description: When oil is extracted from wells, it’s often accompanied by natural gas. There’s no economical way to store and use that natural gas, so it’s . . . → Read More: Unnatural emissions: Flaring gas from oil sites
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Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #694: September 26, 2011 Costs of Owning a Vehicle by State: There are many costs involved in owning a vehicle, such as depreciation, interest on financing, taxes and fees, insurance premiums, fuel, maintenance, and repairs. Research has been done to calculate the difference in those costs over a five-year period on a State . . . → Read More: The cost of car ownership in the US Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #692: September 12, 2011 Fuel Economy Distribution for New Cars and Light Trucks: Nearly 64% of new cars sold in model year (MY) 1975 had combined highway/city fuel economy of 15 miles per gallon (mpg) or less [blue shading]. By 2010, 63% of cars had fuel economy of 25 mpg or higher [green . . . → Read More: New US vehicle fuel economy Update: After some Intertubery, I think the “1C” paper referred to below is: The net climate impact of coal-fired power plant emissions [PDF] Cleaner air may make global warming worse – The Irish Times – Wed, Jun 29, 2011 Understanding impacts of aerosols and trace gases on climate and air quality: Atmospheric aerosol particles (otherwise known as particulate matter) . . . → Read More: It’s aerosol whiplash time Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #681: June 27, 2011 U.S. Ethanol Production, 2001-2010: Ethanol production has been rising rapidly over the last 10 years driven largely by government standards requiring the use of renewable fuels. The first Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) was established in 2005 and required the use of 4 billion gallons of renewable fuels by 2006 . . . → Read More: A decade of US ethanol production A couple of articles crossed my screen this morning that highlight the unfortunate ways our use of energy and water can interact. First, in the Bloomberg piece, China Orders Release of Water From Three Gorges Dam to Ease Hubei Drought, we learn hear that rainfall has been so low in parts of China (40 to 50 percent . . . → Read More: Stuck in the energy/water nexus I get one question a lot about food prices, as happened in a discussion recently with a friend who owns two restaurants: How much does speculation push up the price of food? My standard answer is that it’s definitely a contributor, but I can’t honestly say whether I think it accounts for 1% or 50% . . . → Read More: Food price outlook  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Biofuels, Climate change, Economics and business, Food, Oil, Public policy Ah yes, peak oil, and the chore of communicating an urgent but horribly inconvenient truth to consumers and voters who most decidedly do not want to hear it or anything even remotely like it. Sound like any other topic that I have been known to write about until my fingers bleed? Anyway, check out the video . . . → Read More: Peak oil made easy (to understand, that is) You can win bar bets with this one, ’cause every American, almost without exception, knows that we import more oil from Saudi Arabia (or Libya) than from anywhere else. . . . → Read More: US Petroleum Imports by Country So sayeth autobloggreen: Steadily rising fuel costs during the first three months of 2011 have had virtually no impact on total U.S. petroleum deliveries, says the American Petroleum Institute (API). First-quarter deliveries rose by 5.5 percent, compared to the same period in 2010. For March, deliveries surged by 7.3 percent over the same month in 2010, hitting . . . → Read More: Logic Easter Egg: Gasoline prices |
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