Environment and Planning A (in press 2011; doi:10.1068/a43221) via the UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies / by Jonn Axsen and Kenneth S Kurani http://pubs.its.ucdavis.edu/download_pdf.php?id=1468 ITS UC Davis site: http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/research/Findings/social.php [Green Car Congress] Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and … Continue reading »
Posted on May 30, 2011 …
Climate and Electricity Annual 2011: Data and Analysis
International Energy Agency (RFFers can access this book via OECD iLibrary below; if prompted for a password use the link on the library’s landing page on the upper left.) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/book/9789264111646-en [From Introduction] Electricity is unique when it comes to meeting the climate-change challenge: as the largest and fastest growing source of carbon dioxide (CO2), it … Continue reading »
Not Again: The Summer Vacation Gas Price Roller Coaster on the Move Again — Why Energy Price Volatility Hurts Families, Businesses, and the Economy
Center for American Progress / by Christian E. Weller and Jaryn Fields http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/05/pdf/gas_price_volatility.pdf …The upswing in gas prices this spring is reminiscent of several springs in the past. Prices at the pump also soared by more than 30 percent in the spring of 2002, the first year of such large price increases in the spring, … Continue reading »
Alternatives to Traditional Transportation Fuels 2009
US DOE, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/renewable/alternative_transport_vehicles/index.cfm EIA publishes data on alternative fueled vehicles (AFVs) supplied each year as well as estimates on the total inventory of AFVs in use in the U.S. and the fuels they consume. In 2009, a total of 1,076,350 alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles were made available in the U.S., a … Continue reading »
Google Correllate
Google Labs http://correlate.googlelabs.com/# Learning people’s opinions or concerns about the topic of your data may be the purpose of this new service. Instructions are sparse, but the procedure seems to be: upload your data at the site above and then use keyword searching to find queries similar to the data series you’ve entered and named. … Continue reading »
