CityKin

I've been fascinated with the uprisings in north Africa. YouTube is full of dramatic protest crowds. But there are also people on the ...

I think it is worth looking closer at this advertisement on a gas pump. The weather beaten boards imply a western motif. And the west impl...

The subsidy of the driver continues. In USA Today: ....drivers will pay less than ever at the pump for upkeep of the nation's roads — j...

'Americans are not addicted to oil, Americans are addicted to freedom - the freedom to move freely and independently where and when we w...

The BP Oil Spill overlaid on Cincinnati, so you can visualize the scale of the disaster, found here :   UPDATE: But that is nothing compared...

Where is the outrage at the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Eleven men were killed, the water continues to be polluted, wildlife i...

I have been a latecomer to the Peak Oil theory. It's just not my bag. My problem with cars is their negative effects on urbanism and wa...

A Statesville, NC paper reports on a paradigm shift. It will be interesting to see if hydro technology will really proceed like this scien...

The highway trust fund is going broke. I seem to remember that Voinovich has said he will not run for the Senate again. If that is true, t...

A listserve associate of mine sent this interesting link at NASA . It is satellite imagery of Las Vegas from Landsat 5. It clearly demonstra...

Time makes an argument for raising the gasoline tax: As unemployment heads toward double digits, we can use this found money to encourage p...

The Financial Times says that this low oil price is only a temporary lull until the economy recovers. They believe that $100/barrel oil wil...

Some quotes relevant to the current crisis: The White House just asked the national debt ceiling be raised another $700 billion, for the pro...