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		<title>Peak Oil: Impact # 6 &#8211; Rural Communities</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/06/peak-oil-impact-6-rural-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/07/06/peak-oil-impact-6-rural-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had occasion to visit with my father at my parents’ property in the lovely Berkshire Mountains region of New England. They live elsewhere in western Massachusetts, but have owned this 30 acre parcel in a very rural community since I was very young. It’s not especially well-developed … there is no running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some New Comments on Peak Oil &amp; Transportation</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/24/some-new-comments-on-peak-oil-transportation/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/24/some-new-comments-on-peak-oil-transportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-speed rail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lind is the Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program and a frequent contributor to Salon.com—a publication (and writer) whose perspectives I usually agree with. The new America website is quite good.
However, Mr. Lind recently published an article at Salon regarding the future of transportation—fixed/high-speed rail, specifically—that I take issue with. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil&#8217;s Impact # 4: Visiting Your Dentist/MD</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/18/peak-oils-impact-4-visiting-your-dentistmd/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/06/18/peak-oils-impact-4-visiting-your-dentistmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main themes that I will return to repeatedly as this blog progresses is that of transportation.
I’ll permit others more technically savvy, experienced, and knowledgeable to address the issue of automobile usage and our eventual conversion of internal combustion engines to those that either run on alternative fuel/energy sources, or electric cars. (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil &amp; Transportation: Part III</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/10/peak-oil-transportation-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/10/peak-oil-transportation-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a goal of the United States to develop a national intermodal transportation system that moves people and goods in an energy efficient  manner. The Nation’s future economic direction is dependent on its ability to confront directly the enormous challenges of the global  economy, declining productivity growth, energy vulnerability, air pollution, and the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil &amp; Transportation: Part I</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/04/peak-oil-transportation-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/03/04/peak-oil-transportation-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve touched on the theme of transportation previously (here), and would like to devote the next couple of posts to exploring this vital topic a bit more.
“The automobile industry simply can no longer rely on oil to supply 98 percent of the world’s automotive energy  requirements.” Robert A. Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman for marketing
Changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few More China/Transportation Tidbits</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/18/a-few-more-chinatransportation-tidbits/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/18/a-few-more-chinatransportation-tidbits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up once more on my January 11th post about China’s increasing demand for oil (http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/11/the-world-of-transportation/), some more information courtesy of Tom Whipple and today’s Energy Bulletin:
China ended 2009 with oil imports averaging some 5 million b/d in December for the first time ever. Chinese demand is  expected to remain strong in 2010….Evidence abounds that China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Noting</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/16/worth-noting/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/16/worth-noting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of my post earlier this week regarding automobiles (http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/11/the-world-of-transportation/) and the impact on Peak Oil resulting from the increasing worldwide demand (notably in China and India), a recent article from the Financial Times notes the following:
China yesterday underlined the power shift from western car markets to Asia as data confirmed car sales in the country shot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Of Transportation</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/11/the-world-of-transportation/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2010/01/11/the-world-of-transportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peakoilmatters.com/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again, and Happy New Year!
I’ll now be posting with greater frequency, and hope that you’ll feel free to offer commentary on these posts and the ideas they generate.
So far I’ve tried to set out some of the basic considerations about Peak Oil. As I stated at the outset, I’ll leave it to others more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Consumption In The United States</title>
		<link>http://peakoilmatters.com/2009/12/19/oil-consumption-in-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://peakoilmatters.com/2009/12/19/oil-consumption-in-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Turcotte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cantarell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. production]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In order for us to begin thinking differently about Peak Oil and its implications, and to begin envisioning what kinds of changes we can make (and will likely have no choice about), we should first understand our oil situation and consumption. This post is an introduction.
If the Peak Oil proponents are correct, we are in [...]]]></description>
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