Propeller has stalled in flight, but rail development for Canberra hasn’t even taken off 3/2/2012 “The Nation’s transport boss has been caught up in a mid-air drama above Canberra with a Qantas…
M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline
What has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil declines shown…
Ethanol blended E10 would take 14 years to replace ULP in Australia
On past trends of growing ethanol use in cars it would take 14 years to replace all unleaded petrol presently used in Australia. Any traffic growth, e.g. caused by the current ambitious…
Crude oil peak in Algeria
(1) Actual production We have 3 components of oil supplies from different sources: crude oil only (statistics from IEA) condensate (statistics from EIA) natural gas liquids (statistics from EIA) Note that oil…
Australian Peaky Leaks goes mainstream
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-evidence-of-this-treachery-went-down-the-memory-hole/story-e6frezz0-1226248729853 The Australian Daily Telegraph published today a story on a leaked government report (BITRE 117) which (optimistically) calculated peak oil around 2017, followed by permanent decline The report can be downloaded…
Nigeria: oil producers try to reduce fuel subsidies
Fuel subsidies in oil producing countries are a big problem not only because they are a burden for budgets but also because they result in an inefficient oil supply environment. This problem…
Iran playing war games, but not in video arcades
As the world enters year 8 of peak oil with wafer thin spare capacity to offset any supply disruptions, war games around the heart of the Middle East oil supply system are…
Crudeoilpeak Summary 2011
In 2011, I wrote a total of 55 posts. The menu system was also expanded with readily available graphs and other information. These were the topics in 2011: (1) Oil supplies…
Incremental crude oil production August 2011
(1) By continent (1.1) North America Growing Canadian production from tar sand syn crude could not offset Mexican decline. The US was able to increase production after the last hurricane and the…
Australian Energy White (Wash) Paper 2011: peak oil denial not yet peaked
It is unbelievable. We are now in year #7 of peak oil, and a newly released draft of an Energy White Paper of the Australian government, together with a suite of other…