Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

Bailout Bill Includes Bike Commuting Benefit

By Brad Aaron | Oct 2, 2008 | 24 Comments

Remember Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s long-sought $20 per month tax credit for bike commuters, intended to extend a benefit to cyclists that motorists have received for decades? The measure ridiculed by North Carolina Rep. Patrick "Give Me Fossil Fuels or Give Me Death" McHenry? It didn’t make it into law last year, but it seems […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Who’s Gonna Keep You Supplied, Man?

By Ben Fried | Sep 30, 2008 | No Comments

From cartoonist Mark Fiore comes this animation of a hyperactive Ziploc baggy. Before clicking through to see why it’s so amped up, here’s some suggested reading from the New York Times: Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department Frustration in the South as a Gasoline Shortage Drags On Enjoy the afternoon and Shana […]

Jim Kunstler on the Bail Out and What’s Next

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 29, 2008 | 9 Comments

Jim Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, has been predicting today’s financial catastrophe for a few years now so it’s no surprise that his blog is loading slowly this morning. The people want to know: What’s going to happen next? What the mainstream is truly missing here en masse is that another tsunami is building […]

Where They Stand: Obama and McCain on Transportation

By Brad Aaron | Sep 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

With a few hours to go until what will be the season’s first presidential debate, we’re looking over a report from the Brookings Institution, which outlines each candidate’s positions on transportation. The six-page report [PDF] holds few if any surprises for Streetsbloggers, but it nicely highlights respective statements from McCain and Obama on topics like […]

Cartoon Tuesday: Vote for Oil

By Brad Aaron | Sep 9, 2008 | No Comments

On this Election Day, here’s animator Mark Fiore on the importance of making your voice heard in uncertain times. Click through for this timely message.

Palin to RNC: It’s Drill or “Do Nothing at All”

By Brad Aaron | Sep 4, 2008 | 5 Comments

If there was any question as to where a John McCain-Sarah Palin White House would stand on transportation, the prospective VP’s speech to the Republican National Convention left little room for doubt. Here’s Palin from last night, via Grist: "Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems […]

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