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How much of that production actually makes it to the larger market, instead of, say, being allocated to drilling the next well? And, what would the graph look like if it were plotted by BTU, and not by barrel, accounting for the fact that the good stuff was taken first? It appears that light sweet crude, which is the best petroleum, peaked around 2008. Now we are producing more heavy sour, low grade petroleum. Airline travel is down, and so are miles driven in this country, despite an increase in production over the last few years. Something tells me that petroleum has effectively peaked, when the end product, gasoline or diesel fuel in the tank, is measured.

Only 54% of age 18-24 have jobs, the lowest percentage since 1948. http://investmentwatchblog.com/americans-ages-18-24-are-unemployed-like-never-before/ Unemployment hurts driving two ways: there's not as much money to pay for a car, and no reason to drive to work. For suburban kids with no other options, driving and work sort of go together. For some, the economics of driving at 18 just don't work out.

^ Laying the rail and ordering vehicles is the easy part. The hard part is figuring out what to do with all of the stuff that's already in the street and is in the way. The Duke issue alone has added at least a year to the project.

^For those that have been following this board for years, you may remember that I made a prediction: The streetcar will not be operational before 2017. Well, the official schedule has the streetcar operation operational by 2017, but only by 3 months. So, I was pretty close. If there are any delays, I might still be right. If it does in fact open on time, then I stand corrected. I took a lot of flak on this board for my original point: this project is more complicated, both technically and politically, than it is given credit for, and it's going to take at least 10 years, using the 2007 feasibility study as a starting point. :-)

Ohio is projected to gain 156 people between 2015 and 2025. http://www.census.gov/prod/2/pop/p25/p25-1131.pdf (Projection made in 1997) Ohio is projected to gain 197,388 between 2000 and 2030 http://www.census.gov/population/projections/data/state/projectionsagesex.html (Projection made in 2005) Ohio is projected to gain 69,910 between 2015 and 2025 http://development.ohio.gov/files/research/P6001.pdf (Projection made in 2013) All of these projections show increase, but not much.

Thanks for posting! Please keep them coming!

Reflecting pools in the desert? :roll:

In addition to all of the other reasons already mentioned, it is harder to get a driver's license these days. In most states, kids under 18 have to get extensive driver training, and there are restrictions such as no driving at night, etc. If one can put off getting a license, the requirements are much easier. States did this because statistics showed that teenagers have a much higher rate of accidents. I guess they helped reduce the number of accidents all right, not just by training the kids, but by making it such a hassle to get a license that fewer kids are driving.

I-75 may have ended up in a different alignment, if the Rapid Transit right-of-way had not been available. Still, I wouldn't call it "one decision." The world is more complicated than that.

That's disgusting. The fountain was meant as a potable water supply.

There is a book about the library: Free and Public, by John Fleishman. It includes more photos. And yes, there was at least one death from falling: John Sloan, a book shelver, was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in 1902.

It's really simple. The Midwest consists of all of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, and part of the surrounding states: The Midwest corresponds with the CORN BELT: The quintessential image of the Midwest is a corn field.

This is kind of addicting. Maybe someone with some GIS skills could put some maps together. Here are some more place name search results for comparison. Why is Ohio so important boring humid awesome Why is Indiana so boring conservative racist humid Why is Illinois so liberal humid corrupt flat Why is Missouri so humid hot conservative awesome Why is California so liberal broke polluted big Why is Florida so crazy hot weird Why is Kentucky so boring Republican racist poor Why is Kansas so hot good at basketball backward flat Why is New Jersey so hated expensive depressing corrupt Why is West Virginia so bad weird racist poor Why is Canada so nice lame expensive liberal Why is France so gay weak socialist secular Why is Russia so big poor crazy homophobic

This was my point about the curved alignments. Now it's confirmed by John. What was your point exactly? Of course all of the custom pieces of track will need to be manufactured. And that will take longer than straight track, which is already manufactured because it is stock. My point was that the proposed alignment is unnecessarily complicated, which causes the construction and operation cost to be higher than necessary. Specifically, the alignment jogs a couple of blocks east and west, resulting in 4 more right-angle turns that would have been required if the alignment was a simple loop up one street and down another. We had a long discussion about it on this thread a few years ago. The reason that I bring this up is that a number of UO members said that the curves wouldn't cause any trouble at all. Now, John has reported that it is, in fact, a cost issue. I get the part about maximizing the development opportunities. Still, I think that there was probably another alignment that would have resulted in a better return. How much extra did the jogs add to the project cost? $5 million? $10 million? I don't know. I do know that a straight alignment is less expensive than a curved one, and also results in a slightly better running speed. I personally visited a modern streetcar in Germany and observed that the wheels squealed around a curve. Supposedly, modern streetcars are quiet, but this one was not.

This was my point about the curved alignments. Now it's confirmed by John.

Morgan's Raid reenactment in Harrison, Ohio, on the 150th anniversary. 1.<br> 2.<br> 3.<br> 4.<br> 5. <br>John Hunt Morgan on far right 6.<br>

^This thread is about driverless cars, regardless of how they are powered.

A postcard photo-op of a streetcar in front of Findlay Market. :) This is good stuff. Thanks for posting.

Hamilton County is looking for a GIS person. I saw it in the newspaper - sorry, no link.

^In the grand scheme of things, the cost of relocating the Duke utilities for the proposed streetcar is just a miniscule percentage of Duke's budget.

^Both parties handled the situation terribly, not just Duke.

Jupiter is in a favorable position for viewing now. Here's another one with all four Galilean moons.

It doesn't have to be a garage, but a private parking space, or at the very minimum a parking space within a reasonable distance of home that is available most of the time. Either you have a car or you don't. If you have a car, you're probably not going to buy or rent a place without parking.

^Anyone who pays for petroleum or natural gas products is part of this profit system.

^The company is based in Texas but the brine is to come from Pennsylvania. There probably are places to dispose of it in Texas, but it will cost much more to transport it that far.