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Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011

Dent Slams Obama Over Depletion of Strategic Oil Reserve

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"The spice must flow." Anybody who has read the Dune novel series is familiar with that mantra, a mysterious yet intoxicating sub...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Rising Gas Prices: Death By a Thousand Cuts to American Economy?

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Now, if you're one of the folks who supports cap-and-trade, you now have an opportunity to study just how a sudden rise in gas prices wi...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The End of Oil - What the Lehigh Valley Can Do

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(Blogger's Note: This is one of the first essays published here, way back on 6/26/06, when most of us were convinced our oil supply was...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

A Reason for Urban Living

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Mike Schlossberg , who works at Lehigh Valley's Chamber of Commerce , has a pretty good idea . "Here's a novel idea to save mo...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Lehigh County: Hydrogen the Fuel of the Future

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"Hydrogen is arguably the most dangerous gas in a lab. If you don't take every precaution there will be an explosion, and it doesn...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Lehigh Valley Gas Over $3 per Gallon

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Gas prices are spiralling again. The $3 per gallon bubble has finally burst in Easton. Gas prices in the Lehigh Valley range between $3.02 i...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

No Need 4 Speed: Do the Limit Challenge!

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When Chuck Keiser and I were both foolish young men, we worked together briefly in a lab at JT Baker Chemical Company . I blew the lab up th...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

BMW's Hydrogen Cars For Hydrogen Highway: Now All We Need are Hydrogen Pumps

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No one disputes our global gas gauge is flickering on E . When we go dry is not exactly known, but oil is a nonrenewable energy source. Ther...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The Lehigh Valley Has a Mass Transit Crisis

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Yesterday, in Easton's City Council Chambers, LANTA conducted the first of three public hearings before it raises fares and cuts our b...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Why We're Not Leaving the Middle East

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It has nothing to do with shoving "democracy" down the throats of unwilling Iraqis. It has nothing to do with our pals in Israel o...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Mass Transit Advocates Suffer Setback in Easton

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Most of us look down our noses at people who ride the bus. They're full of the dregs of society and we might catch a disease or somethin...
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Bethlehem's City Council Prez - Highways? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Highways

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J. Michael Schweder , President of Bethlehem's City Council, is leading a press conference 3:00 PM today at Bethlehem City Hall to annou...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

One Small Problem With the H2 Highway Formerly Known as I-78

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My son is a pain in the ass. According to him, hydrogen may not be all that safe. "Hydrogen is arguably the most dangerous gas in a lab...
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Dent Proposes Converting Interstate 78 to Hydrogen Highway East

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No one disputes we're running out of gas . Our global gas gauge is flickering on E. We could argue about just when that might occur, but...
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Monday, June 26, 2006

The End of Oil - What Can the Lehigh Valley Do?

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It's coming. While we play at the beaches, Peak Oil has already reared its ugly head. We don't notice. Most of us have never experi...
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Friday, September 23, 2005

Our Collective Addiction

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Like crazed drug addicts, we have hurled ourselves into Iraq, in all our Imperial Glory, to insure our oil stash. We have about 20 years of ...

A Small Solution to the Oil Crisis

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A Small Solution to the Oil Crisis She doesn't know I saw her. She snickered as I walked past the counter on my way out of the office, a...
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