The War Against Oil

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...

Over 2 years ago, when most of the media was still celebrating him, I compared Elon Musk to Henry Ford. Not...

The best prism through which to see current events is something I’ve been writing about here for over 15 years....

It’s becoming clear to me that 2024 will be a global hinge point. That's not based on, but on technologies...