A listener from Flagstaff, Ariz. wants to know what fate awaits his town in the post oil future. The verdict from Jim? At least it's not Phoenix, but most of Flagstaff looks like the service road around Newark Airport. The caller also asks about the new Honda hydrogen fuel cell car, which reminds Jim to bash so-called environmentalist Amory Lovins' fantasy to keep the motoring scene going at all costs. Episode 7. With transcript/Con la transcripción española.
In this month's MuseLetter, Heinberg shares some material from his upcoming book on coal. Also includedare his May column for The Ecologist magazine ("What Car do You Drive?"), a Foreword that he wrote for the new edition of Mat Stein’s brilliant book When Technology Fails, and a brief blog for the Post Carbon Institute website.
In this episode of Kunstlercast, a listener from Columbus, Ohio shares the bad
news about two proposed downtown parking garages. Even though James
Howard Kunstler thinks the happy motoring scene in America is on the
way out, he explains how to design a better parking garage with
first-floor retail, a central lightwell and taller ceilings. The
Europeans have a better solution, though: the car club. With transcript.
The automakers rolled out their biggest guns on Wednesday, March 14 for a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality on the blandly titled topic of “Climate Change and Energy Security: Perspectives from the Automobile Industry.” The hearing would more honestly have been entitled, “Should We Raise Fuel Economy Standards or Do Something Else? –Anything Else!”
