Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Oil

No Wonder the NYPD is Cracking Down on Bikes

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 1, 2006 | No Comments

Reuters reports, Bicycle and oil deals cement Chavez’s ties to Iran: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez enveloped his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a bear hug on Sunday and the two men backed their anti-U.S. rhetoric with deals on everything from bicycles to oil.

Pseudo-Environmental Hummers

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 24, 2006 | 9 Comments

A lone Hummer driver with a conscience? At first glance, it seems so. But this is actually becoming something of a trend: Everyone who is pitching an alternative fuel these days is using a Hummer to make his or her point. And the reason is obvious. Everyone knows that Hummers are the most gas guzzing private vehicles on […]

Eyes on the Street: Essex St., Lower East Side, Mon. 7/3/06

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 5, 2006 | 1 Comment

Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 28, 2006 | No Comments

New York City economist and activist Charles Komanoff has been focused lately on developing and promoting the idea of a "carbon tax." Carbon taxes are still still very much considered fringe economic theory and politically unviable, though, as you read Komanoff’s latest essay in Grist, you have to wonder how long that will last. The […]