Oil
Are Texas Transportation Commissioners’ Investments in Auto and Oil Fueling Highway Addiction?
“They’d discuss budgets, billions and billions of dollars — and it’s obvious who their interests are,” she says. “I was there every month and never once did I hear them say, ‘People who are living in their grandma’s home, that’s their inheritance — [we want to make sure they] are being paid equally as all the big businesses downtown.’”
March 10, 2023
Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate
The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.
August 26, 2022
COBALT WARS: Just When You Thought Electric Cars Were Going to Save Us…
...the shortage of key minerals means we'll likely be addicted to oil for a lot longer.
March 16, 2022
How the U.S. Transportation System Fuels Inequality
Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
February 4, 2022
Advocates to Biden: There’s A Better Way to Address Rising Gas Prices
Sustainable transportation advocates are sending a clear message to Washington: the best way to address rising gas prices is to cut oil demand, not increase supply.
November 29, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: The Demise of the Oil Industry
If you listen to no other podcast this week, check out this one with a electric car booster who sees the demise of the entire oil industry on the near horizon!
April 2, 2020
Joe Biden Doesn’t Go Far Enough On Transit
Please wake us when the Democratic 2020 candidates get serious about transit in the 21st century.
November 18, 2019
Climate Change Fight Dies in Texas Oil Region
An oil-rich region of West Texas is about to get more than half a billion dollars in highway funds so it can continue to pump more crude and frack natural gas — perpetuating a cycle that is causing the destruction of human civilization.
August 28, 2019
Oil-Laden Freight Trains Delaying Amtrak, Commuter Trains Across U.S.
Oil production is booming across North America, as new technologies make it possible to extract liquid crude oil from sources like the Bakken shale oil field in North Dakota and Montana, or Alberta's tar sands. The ever-increasing volume of crude oil mined in remote Great Plains locations often finds its way to refineries via "rolling pipelines" – freight trains that tow a million barrels of oil around the United States every day. Production of Bakken crude has tripled over the past three years, and 79 percent of it is shipped out by rail.
August 14, 2014
Will New Oil Supplies Slow the Transition to Green Transportation?
What if peak oil doesn't take care of gas-guzzling by cutting off the supply?
March 25, 2013