oil execs want carbon tax, not cap-and-trade.

54% more ammonia and 35% more 'suspended solids' to be dumped in Whiting. [this is why the Trib sucks; look at their front page every day, but read about this in the nyt]

"Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You"

Thanks for all that energy, BP!

Toyota and Lukoil bring you news of (proposed) tolls for Midtown.

Fucking knot of tariffs & price props helps Agribiz, Big Sugar & Big Oil. Hurts environment, consumers, 3rd world sugar cane growers. I blame Illinois!

valvoline, gasoline, all the ones in between: more on the oil we eat. via estee.

awesome charts... love it.

This is a great idea, but seems clumsily executed. Why wireless connectivity? Will wired internet be damaged in an oil crisis? Doesn't take into non transport energy costs, either. Farmers markets probably have a minimal effect on oil use, etc.

Iraq is *potentially* unstable?

"scientific" post-millenarianism: This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society.

delicious oil: "In 1940 the average farm in the United States produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 (the last year anyone checked), that ratio was 1:1"

"King Abdullah Economic City"

who stole the show?

Inflation-adjusted crude peak: $96.81 in 11/79

more like 'suxon mobil'