Alternative transportation is on the rise in LA — at least temporarily. Metro says that ridership has risen on both its rail and bus systems since January. There are also signs that more commuters are choosing to carpool or cycle. The changes are attributed to rising gas prices, but aren’t expected to last for long.
The [...]
I was reading VF Daily today when I came across David Roberts’ post on global warming. I could have ghost written the piece since it so closely mirrors my opinions on global warming:
The things environmentalists are trying to do in response to global warming make sense to do even if there is, in fact, no [...]
Chieftain of the Chevron reservation David O’Reilly predicated a few years back that low gas prices were unsustainable. Now that we’ve seen sustained skyrocketing prices at the pump, Wall Street Journal asked O’Reilly to ‘peer into the crystal ball again.’
He repeated his mantra: cheap oil is dead. Thus Americans can expect to be paying at [...]
Peter Viles over at LA Land also comments on the suburbia-oil nexus:
Consider the effect of $4 gas. A 110-mile round-trip commute gets very expensive in a hurry. Consider that fast-growing areas such as the Inland Empire have suddenly lost a major source of economic vitality: home-building and all the economic activity it creates and sustains.
But [...]
“An oil crisis is coming, and sooner than most people think. We need to act now. Unfortunately, we are behaving in ways that suggest we do not know there is a serious problem.” – [...]
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