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Mar 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"Delivery vans, 1942 style" (Greenbelt, MD) "grocery store"..."Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium...youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing their country a real service" #gasoline
Photo by Ann Rosener via the U.S. Library of Congress: loc.gov/pictures/item/…
"How to keep warm and save fuel in wartime", 1942. google.com/books/edition/…
"Hold Your Horses.... Haste Maste Waste!"
Kiplinger's June 1948: Look Out For A Gasoline Shortage books.google.com/books?id=wgUEA…
"Share to save..." google.com/books/edition/…
"How about the cars in your block? Are they being put to any community service, or does each family who owns one use it just for itself?" 👀

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Mar 11
Some of the items in this International Red Cross description of the issues in #Mariupol #Ukraine are a good measure of how desperate things are. i.e. "People started to attack each other for food." icrcnewsroom.org/story/en/1992/… Image
"People report varying needs in medicine. Especially for diabetes and cancer patients. But there is no way to find it any more in the city." Comments: very common in disaster zones; diabetic patients, those requiring refrigerated drugs; those requiring dialysis
suffer first.
"All the shops and pharmacies were looted four to five days ago. Some people still have food but I’m not sure for how long it will last." Comments: at least a two week (or larger) food supply for really big disasters (plus enough to share w/the unprepared F/F).
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Mar 10
Dang it, and here I was hoping to get a Lada Riva/2107.
Top Gear episode:
Well, that's a lot more expensive than I would have imagined. Must be how rare they are in the US. Probably illegal to drive it in California due to emissions though LOL
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Mar 9
Random thoughts on what cities should (but won't) do to transition out of a #gasoline dependent world. 1. separated bike lanes everywhere, particularly in working class neighborhoods that already heavily bicycle/pedestrian. Image
2. Bicycle racks at local stores and shopping centers. At least in my suburban area, even if you bicycle there, you can't lock up your bicycle anywhere! Image
3. Removing/repealing bicycle unfriendly laws, which often are used more as pretext to snag people using bicycles for work, rather than pleasure. tampabay.com/news/publicsaf…
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Mar 9
Flooding seen on the Sentinel-1 satellite images as well around the town of Demydiv #Ukraine
Around Irpin, not so much flood as a full river where there have been ongoing battles between the Russians and Ukrainians. It would limit you to bridges. Sentinel-1 #satellite.
Stuff (probably, tanks/APCs/armor) burning on either side of the river near Moshchun.
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Mar 9
#Chornobyl nuclear power plant taken via Sentinel-2 #satellite at 2022-03-08 09:06:34 UTC (about 15 hours ago).
Can't tell what is different post-invasion (aside from the layer of snow. ps. don't eat the now mildly radioactive snow).
Radiation sensors there apparently back on the grid. Not great, not terrible.
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Mar 8
If you think gas and energy prices are bad now, just wait as the climate crisis continues to take a toll on infrastructure (wildfires, floods, hurricanes, wind). Pumping more gas is only a temporary pricing fix, but it's a long term accelerator creating more issues.
Things we can do now: 1. decentralize to more resilient power (rooftop solar, batteries, microgrids) 2. decarbonize (wind, solar, geothermal) 3. Less individual transport, more bicycling/walking/mass transit first, EVs if you can, hybrid where necessary. 4. lots of disaster prep.
ps. I'm chuckling at all the folks commenting on "that's so dark" or "why the depressing content"... you must have missed reading any of the posts on this account through the last two dozen disasters ;-)
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