Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peak oil. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2009

LA-SF Nation's Second Busiest Air Route - Shows Need For HSR

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The Brookings Institution has released a report today showing that the nation's busiest air routes are growing more congested over time...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Speeding Up Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner

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A couple of weeks ago, the Ventura County Star published an article on California HSR that we mentioned, but only in the context of a nega...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Daniel Goldberg Reaches New Lows in HSR Denial

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On Monday the Ventura County Star ran a good article on high speed rail. That prompted on Daniel Goldberg, who writes a blog for the VC Sta...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Don't Look Now...

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...but gas prices are creeping back up again . At the corner station nearest me in Monterey we've seen an increase of about 30 cents ove...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Asphalt Empire Strikes Back

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UPDATE by Robert: Sen. Kit Bond, Republican from Missouri, is offering two anti-transit amendments - including one that would kill the $2 ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Zombie Lies

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I had hoped we'd dealt with this when it popped up at Daily Kos yesterday - the commenters there gave it a thorough smackdown - but unf...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Prop 1A Forum at UC Santa Cruz

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For those of you in the Monterey Bay or San José areas, I will be part of a panel discussion on Proposition 1A at UC Santa Cruz at noon toda...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Sustainability

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Earlier this summer the price of a barrel of crude oil hit a record $147. Since then the price has declined dramatically to about $64. Gas p...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Their Past vs Our Future

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With just over a week until the votes are counted we are about to learn whether California will embrace the 21st century or go down with the...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

HSR: Safe and Fuel Efficient

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Dennis Lytton, who has authored a post for this blog back in June and is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Prop 1A and HSR's Role in Fighting Sprawl

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In the comments to Thursday's post we saw an old claim get revived - that somehow Prop 1A and HSR would induce sprawl. The entire argum...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Oil Prices Soar

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Up by $31 in the last couple days according to the New York Times , currently at $122/bbl. Sure, crude prices have been coming down since t...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Powering the High Speed Train With Renewable Energy

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Sitting here on the northbound Coast Starlight contemplating the past, the present, and the future. Off to the left is the Santa Barbara Cha...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Retraining America

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Via the passenger rail blog I discovered a fantastic documentary titled Retraining America (scroll to the bottom of the page; film is a 34...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

62% of Californians Want High Speed Rail

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That's the latest polling numbers from JMM Research on our high speed rail project, as quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Gas Prices and HSR

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As expected, gas prices have begun falling. I will admit I did not think this would start until after Labor Day, as the fall is usually when...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008

The Sierra Club Loses Focus

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It wasn't the article I was hoping to read upon my return from my honeymoon, but it's not that surprising to read in the Fresno Bee...
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