Fleeting Life
May 11, 2011In these early-morning hours, the view towards this new day is made up of apprehension and dread — my Jeep is in the shop (which makes me walking to work, though not too far) to…
Tag Archives: peak oil
Pump-Up the Bullet
April 10, 2011Yeah… Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. — Benjamin Franklin (Illustration…
GAS — (And NOT the bowel blowback kind, either)
February 27, 2011A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics…
Gluttony of Greed — ‘Beyond the point’
January 13, 2011In the shadow of the horrible Tucson shooting and all the political bullshit foamed up in its wake, the earth continues its wild spin into disaster. Peak oil and climate change, to use a nightmare…
Secrets So Complex
January 3, 2011Last year’s BP oil spill will apparently exacerbate our slide down the backside of peak oil — from Consumer Energy Report today — Further: The 220,000 barrel per day loss will be made up by importing…
Terminal Time
November 7, 2010Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is –Â “Time Is On My Side,” The Rolling Stones Wrong — time instead is on an extremely short leash. There’s a scene in the movie,…
Slow-Melt Irony
November 21, 2009One of the great turds of the US political system, Sen. James Inhofe, yes, that silly-assed Republican from Oklahoma, displayed a most-marvelous bit of horror-irony this week as he tweaked the future and all those to…