Lane County Transit District For the second year in a row (the only ones I’ve been paying close attention to) bus ridership in Eugene has increased by over ten percent, 10.4 percent this year. Part of the increase might be attributed to the EmX (pronounced Em-Ex) route between Eugene and Springfield. EmX buses are big, [...]

If anyone missed me while I was gone, my apologies. My computer became corrupted, I needed to “format c:”, and as a result I lost my automatic entry for material to be entered into this blog. It has taken this long to restore my ability to write for these pages. A couple weeks ago I [...]

Dubya Doesn’t Believe Climate Change, But Look Who Does. From EB comes this interesting bit. Click on the link to read the entire article. WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 16, 2007) Global climate change presents a serious national security threat that could affect Americans at home, impact U.S. military operations and heighten global tensions, according to a [...]

My journey is complete. I’ve been to Atlanta by way of Edmonton ( Seemed like a good idea at the time. How was it? Doggone good idea. Great trip. Great train. Substantially superior to Amtrak). Every inch of the journey by rail. As you will know if you’ve read my previous offerings I am a [...]

Journalist Tom Whipple Portland – March 14 Tom strikes again. Once again, the Falls Church News-Press alerts me to the news of the completion of the Report by the Portland Task force on Peak Oil, commissioned by the Portland City Council in May, 2006, with instructions to recommend actions to deal with that impending crisis. [...]

Peak Oil In the mid-1950s Shell Oil petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert published a prediction that U.S. oil production would peak in 1970 and decline steadily after that date. His prediction was scorned until he was proven right.. His acolyte Ken Deffeyes, who worked under him and improved his methodology, forecast not long ago that [...]

This is a continuation of a previous report on the 2/2/07 release of the Assessment Report #4 Summary for Policy Makers I was curious to see what was perhaps made of the projections from the Hadley Center discussed here about a month ago. The projections were there, bold as you please. The summary made something [...]

Biofuels Remember that ‘EB’ is short for http://www.energybulletin.net. Eb published a 01/24/07 piece from the ‘Oil Drum’, a British web publication which, if this were a rating service, would get lots of stars. It’s a beautiful piece of work on biofuel, the very best overview I’ve ever seen, and worth looking at by anyone looking [...]

Peak Oil The Dinner Table Ethanol is alcohol, it’s the stuff that gives booze its kick. It’s the stuff that is becoming popular as a gasoline additive. People are invited to use gasahol as a virtuous move. Ethanol is made from things which are fermentable. Unhappily, those things are usually foodstuffs. Because of the worldwide [...]

The climate change issue is suffering growing pains in the form of a vigorous debate between Ph.Ds over whether we have a bit of time (perhaps 20 years) in which to get our ducks properly in a row, or whether we’ve run out of time and best get it done yesterday. We have previously reported [...]