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01:26 am
peak_oil
[darksumomo]
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End of Suburbia as a class assignment
Tuesday night and tonight, I showed my students "The End of Suburbia." The most memorable reactions were "I never understood how anyone was going to make hydrogen work for running cars," "What a shame Americans are so spoiled. The end of oil is going to take away their toys and they'll all cry.", and "Should we really bankrupt ourselves fighting a war we can't win?" The second student wasn't born here, as you could probably tell.
Following is the worksheet I gave them. If you have the time, see how many you can answer.
( Tonight's worksheet )
Current Mood: nerdy
Tags: peak oil
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09:35 am
peakoil_prep
[plizak]
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It's Time to Rebuild Our Passenger Railroad System
It's Time to Rebuild Our Passenger Railroad System
Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.
By James Howard Kunstler, Chelsea Green Publishing
Posted on November 4, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/143716/
The following is from the foreword of Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service by James McCommons (Chelsea Green, 2009).
The world economic fiasco, which I call "The Long Emergency," may be speeding us into a future of permanent nostalgia in which anything that is not of the present time looks good.
( Read more... )
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03:29 am
peak_oil
[20thlvl_rogue]
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Warren Buffett buying railroads
So probably most of you heard the news, Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, just bought the rest of this huge railroad company for billions of dollars. This is the single biggest acquisition of his career.
The news is touting this as "Warren Buffett is betting on America!"
But to me it seems like he's betting on peak oil. What do you think?
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01:35 pm
peakoil_prep
[smashboredom]
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Sorry it's not about prep...
But this made me think of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) theheretic:
Gang rips out 1km of phone cable
Hundreds of people were left without their landline phone service for nearly 48 hours after thieves stole 1km (0.6 mile) of copper cabling.
Sussex Police said the underground cable was cut and removed from the area near Drusilla's roundabout in Alfriston in the early hours of Wednesday.
BT said telephone services to up 800 homes and businesses in Berwick were restored on Thursday evening.
The estimated cost of repairing and replacing the cable was £45,000.
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08:17 am
peak_oil
[peebeebaynut]
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Yakkity-Yak
http://solarbird.livejournal.com/885364.html?thread=4809076#t4809076
Aside from wondering what she's going to say I did enjoy looking back at the GS superspike report from March 2008...New 'super-spike' might mean $200 a barrel oil - Goldman's projections foretell persistent turbulence in energy prices ``The core of our 'super-spike' view is that oil prices will keep rising until demand declines globally on a multiyear basis, resulting in the return of excess capacity and a lower cost structure," Goldman's analysts said. "Given this view, once excess capacity returns, we think prices can move sharply lower."'' ...with no explanation of how demand would get lower.
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