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One of the most important first steps for a city to make in order to start to kick the oil addiction is to get the public transport (known to North Americans as Transit) fixed up to the point where tr ...

He said Melbourne's outer suburbs, which are heavily car reliant, would become "financially unviable" unless car dependence was reduced.

gee, where have I seen that idea before, hmmm, may ...

Perhaps if R&D efforts had continued for the last fifty years, steam locos would be as efficient as or better than the shining beacons of 1960s diesel technology used by Australia's various railwa ...

Steam locomotives suck ass. More ineffiecent vehicles are hard to imagine.

Perhaps if R&D efforts had continued for the last fifty years, steam locos would be as efficient as or better than the ...

Gas is not oil. There are vast amounts of "stranded" gas around the world, with a large seaborne trade in LNG.

What America faces is a loss of domestic capacity.

If LNG terminals were built in ...

If you think it's hopeless having single track over there, try over here. There's large sections of the line between Sydney and Brisbane that are still single track!

Umm, it's single track all the ...

"The first rule of politics: never believe anything until it's been officially denied."

(Jim Hacker in "Yes, Minister" (Party Games, xmas special))

Sure, it'd be unlikely to work in neighborhoods where people have guns and a will to use them, but here in Oz it doesn't seem unlikely at all.
Actually, it’s the other way around. Looting and thieve ...

Hmmm... don't forget, a pound of beef needs a gallon of gasoline to make it to the store.But you can walk or bike to the store.

That's not the point.

"The store" as a reference point for a massi ...

Demand destruction is overrated. So long as folks still have available credit left on their plastic, jobs, food, and there's fuel for their vehicles for sale, they will still drive, no matter the cos ...

Global warming believers really need to stop using this terminology pronto.

Why? Well, if we've passed the point of no return, nothing society can do even if it cared would change the inevitabil ...

Did anyone of you wonder how the victim's of the last catastrophe on this planet voted I think not.

Doesn't matter - since the Indonesians don't act like they own the world, unlike Bush and several ...

Most people in NZ despise Bush and are becoming increasingly negative on Americans in general. However, nobody considers the flood victims on TV to be connected to the powers that rule the US. They ...

Send David Hicks home, then impeach Bush over the Gitmo issue, and I might consider donating.

Til then, it's a shame, but I don't really feel like doing anything about it. New Orleans was perhaps ...

So that would make it New New Orleans? Smile

Yep, that was the idea and thus I phrased it that way Smile