This Week in Change

Here’s to an (extended because it’s my first recap) exciting week of change:

• The foreclosure crisis is not over, and could prove deeply damaging to the financial system
• Even the CEO of BP admits it: No more cheap energy
• Some think the end of cheap energy should also mean the end of environmental regulations on energy production
• Believe it or not: improving mileage from 15MPG to 20 saves the same amount of gas as improving mileage from 30 MPG to 60
• California used to be the United States’ Saudi Arabia, but just look at it now and you will understand the concept of peak oil
• The auto leasing model is on its way out because nobody wants to buy the crap we have been buying–a clear marker that consumer tastes have changed dramatically
• The French are starting to use old sailing ships to transport goods to the UK–and they plan to build new ones. That new sailing ships. You know, with sails.
• Small electric cars are catching on–in Texas?
• Spain is enacting a 50 MPH speed limit to save on gas
• In nutritional change news, the movement to disclose calorie content on menus grows
• More people in LA are riding their bicycles to work, revealing just how hostile the LA megalopolis is to bicycles
• America’s nuclear power generators are getting long in the tooth–and may not last long enough to be replaced
• In a truly “WTF?” declaration, the Big 3 want to roll back the new MPG standards
• So many people are taking the train that Amtrak is having trouble dealing with the crowds
• It’s well understood that economic growth in China is helping to put a stake in the heart of cheap energy–but on the hopeful side, the newly affluent in China want to buy a lot of new stuff…
  

That’s a lot of change for one week.