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Germany’s Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet
Germany’s Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet What has already been a year from hell for Germany, which is suffering energy hyperinflation as a result of Europe’s sanctions on Russia, and which is “facing the biggest crisis the country has every had” according to the president of the German […]
Why every American should care that diesel prices are surging across the country
Why every American should care that diesel prices are surging across the country The cost of diesel fuel impacts truckers and the entire economy. (Photo: JIm Allen/FreightWaves) Gasoline prices are increasing almost daily, pinching the wallets and pocketbooks of nearly all Americans with cars. However, as bad as that news is, diesel prices are surging […]
Rationing Looms As Diesel Crisis Goes Global
Rationing Looms As Diesel Crisis Goes Global Russian refiners cut processing rates of diesel fuel. Already tight diesel supply is getting even tighter. Vitol’s chief executive Hardy: diesel supply shortage could trigger rationing in Europe Earlier this week, Vitol’s chief Russell Hardy warned that a diesel shortage could trigger fuel rationing in Europe. Now, those […]
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” When English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge published those words in 1798, there was no dense network of modern concrete and asphalt roads in Great Britain (or anywhere else) and there were no automobiles or trucks to ride […]
Here’s Why a Bicycle Might the Ultimate SHTF Transportation
Here’s Why a Bicycle Might the Ultimate SHTF Transportation Have you thought about how you’ll get around in the event that hopping in your car and driving someplace isn’t an option? Transportation and mobility are extremely important factors in preparedness. Mobility can vary significantly during SHTF versus normal times. But it remains equally essential to […]
What Oil Companies Face: The WTF-Collapse of Consumption of Gasoline & Jet Fuel from Long-Term Weakness
What Oil Companies Face: The WTF-Collapse of Consumption of Gasoline & Jet Fuel from Long-Term Weakness Transportation fuel demand rose to where it had been in … 1997. While the overall S&P 500 Index is down 2.7% in October, about flat for the three-month period, and up 2.8% for the year, the S&P 500 Energy […]
Nuclear powered airplanes, cars, and tanks
Nuclear powered airplanes, cars, and tanks Preface. After all the research I’ve done on rebuildable, not renewable wind and solar, hydrogen, batteries, and other Green dreams of an endless future of growth based on them, I’ve come to see them as just as likely as nuclear airplanes and cars. Not going to happen. *** Nuclear […]
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios Empty roads, grounded aircraft, falling tourist and international student numbers, plunging car sales, empty super market shelves, disrupted supply chains… Fig 1: Empty roads in Wuhan in February 2020 China Car Sales Slump 92% in First Half of February on Virus 21 Feb 2020 […]
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis Bowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, announced in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, that for the first […]
How Would YOU Get Around If the SHTF? All-Season Transportation Options
How Would YOU Get Around If the SHTF? All-Season Transportation Options According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Transportation trans·por·ta·tion | \ ˌtran(t)s-pər-ˈtā-shənDefinition of transportation 1 : an act, process, or instance of transporting or being transported2a : means of conveyance or travel from one place to anotherb : public conveyance of passengers or goods especially as a commercial enterprise3 : […]
The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas
The Top 5 Ways We Use Oil & Gas If climate change and the use of fossil fuels is starting to worry you, consider this: The lion’s share of the petroleum in the United States is being used just to get around–to get people and things from point A to point B. Industrial, residential, commercial […]
What Collapsing Orders for Heavy Trucks – Down 71% from a Year Ago – Say about the U-Turn in Trucking
What Collapsing Orders for Heavy Trucks – Down 71% from a Year Ago – Say about the U-Turn in Trucking “When times are tough, the thinking switches to the short-term. Many fleets are just fighting for survival.” Orders for Class-8 trucks – the heavy trucks that haul a large part of the goods-based economy across […]
From Horsepower to Horse Power. When Trucks stop, Horses start.
From Horsepower to Horse Power. When Trucks stop, Horses start. Preface. Before the industrial revolution there were only four sources of mechanical power of any economic significance. They were human labor, animal labor, water power (near flowing streams) and wind power. Work done by animals, especially on farms, was still important at the beginning of […]
1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil
1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil French troops are transported by truck to the front, as shown on a bas-relief of the Monument of the Voie Sacrée near Verdun. Photo by J. Pauwels. Virtually everybody knows that the First World War came to an end when Germany capitulated on […]