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For about 2 years, I commuted about 15 miles each way. The exact distance depended on where I parked the car, but it was typically drive 35, cycle 15.

Towards the end, I could average well over 20 ...

I've just driven the 65 miles from Weymouth to Southampton. All but one of the 20 or so filling stations were out of diesel. About a 1/3 were also out of petrol.

I notice from that peakoil.com has scripts for both google-analytics and quantserver in the header. Both these sites are (in)famous for creating delays in page loads. Scripts further down the page ( ...

Motives don't really matter. They signed onto the NPT. Breaking an international treaty should involve consequences otherwise they are meaningless.
The UK signed the NPT, and is breaking that treat ...

What was most remarkable about this feature was that they had nobody speak against it.

This is the BBC which famously shows both sides of every argument, and which only recently stopped bringing on ...

We get a weekly box of fruit/veggies delivered by a local organic farm co-operative - so we eat whatever they send!

Lots of salad in the summer and lots of root veg in the winter.

If anyone else is having problems logging in, try using an *old* password.

I'm guessing they've restored from an old backup. Hence my new password (changed a month ago?) wasn't working, but my old ...

If the government really wanted us to drive less, they would have increased fuel tax in last week's budget.

Instead, they decided to freeze fuel tax and instead ramped up the VED (annual vehicle ow ...

I have begun to use my bicycle in earnest.

That's your problem. You are beginning. To develop endurance, there is no substitue for hours in the saddle or pounding the streets. Day after day, mon ...

Instead of trying to sell an end-of-the-world, survivalist nightmare to your family, present it in more "friendly" terms.

The wind-up radio is an "environmental thing".

The 48 cans of beans were ...

Based on personal experience (of watching my pension company collapse), my advice is to make sure you're first in the queue to get your money out.

I followed the advice to "sit tight", and the situ ...

Low: $80 - new opec floor
High: $140 - brief geopolitical spike
Close: $105 - wag

More likely to do with people not wanting to get arrested when they protest

Since the last fuel protest, the government has turned pretty much every form of protest or civil disobedience into a ser ...

Yesterday, the UK gov announced an inquiry into Britain's food supply security:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/nov/11/fooddrinks.businessandmedia

After yesterday's Observer, page 3 of today's Guardian is a full page on peak-oil, with a sub-headline

"Output peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year - Decline in gas, coal and uranium also predict ...