Irony Alert – EV Car Charging Station

Electric Vehicle (EV) Manufacturers are taking a lead from the concept of the Naval Convoy System that the Allies developed in WWI to help defeat the German U-Boat threat. Starting with the 2018 Model Year, each EV sold will come with it’s own ‘Charging Station Tender’ that travels in convoy with the EV.  Now that’s ‘sustainability’ at it’s best.  Or maybe not so much….?

Trump Approves Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines

From NPR,

President Trump on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for construction of two controversial oil pipelines, the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access.

As he signed the paperwork in an Oval Office photo op, Trump said his administration is “going to renegotiate some of the terms” of the Keystone project, which would carry crude oil from the tar sands of western Canada and connect to an existing pipeline to the Gulf Coast.

The pipelines had been stopped during the Obama administration. The State Department rejected a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and President Obama ordered work halted on the Dakota pipeline after Native American groups and other activists protested its route near culturally sensitive sites in North Dakota.

 

Peak Oil – Getting Greased

With all the various comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil to water, or milk, or say Starbucks coffee  one other comparison bears making–

KFC_vs_Oil

** Peak Oil:  is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline.  It is often confused with oil depletion; however, peak oil is the point of maximum production, while depletion refers to a period of falling reserves and supply.