The War Against Oil

American urban design changed radically after World War II. Cars like wide roads. They’re noisy, they’re dirty. But we’re locked...

A hallmark of the “golden age of science fiction” is the idea of a strategic metal shortage. That’s why Allen...

Big tech is headed for a crash, worse than the one that caused the dot-bomb a quarter century ago. The...

In 2009, when this site was still called a-clue.com, I rededicated this blog to “the war against oil.”  At the...

One point lost in our arguments about transportation is how electricity scales in ways that engines powered by fossil fuels...

I’ve been writing about e-bikes off-and-on for 18 months now.  Since getting one of my own, I’ve kind of fallen...

I wouldn’t buy shares in Tesla right now. I wouldn’t buy shares in any car company. There are two reasons...

The disconnect between how people feel about the U.S. economy, and how the economy is doing, is real. There are...

Car makers are America’s worst industry. This isn’t a pollution story, or an urban design story. Cars don’t scale. This...

We know that cars don’t scale. They won’t allow construction of dense cities. The average car is about 6 feet...