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Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 1
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 1 The truths, unpleasant though they may be, are the truths: inexpensive, readily available oil is slowly but surely becoming less readily available, more expensive, and harder to come by. Current conditions [ultra-low prices; curtailed/canceled oil production and exploration projects; over-supply; declining investments; high debt] only highlight that […]
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 2
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 2 I ended last week’s post on the topic of Confirmation Bias* with these questions: After all, who among us wants to be wrong about important matters on which we’ve staked no small amount of credibility? But what if being wrong about those important matters winds up being the least […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 1
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 1 I’ll confess that I hesitated before starting this series. It was too easy to again just dive into mockery and sarcasm over pieces written several weeks ago by those who refuse to give credence to the concept of peak oil and/or its implications. [It’s also the gateway […]
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1
Peak Oil: We All Do This, But…. Pt 1 Confirmation bias is the tendency of individuals to pay attention to or believe information that confirms the personal values and beliefs they already hold, rather than allowing their beliefs to be changed by new information. It’s a powerful force that many researchers have suggested plays a […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Intro
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Intro One-sided stories or news features serve many purposes. Unfortunately for the public, serving their interests is rarely if ever one of the objectives … or outcomes. Who among us doesn’t want an endless parade of good news about issues great, inconsequential, and all in between? For […]
Peak Oil: Choosing Chaos … or Not
Peak Oil: Choosing Chaos … or Not If/when a petroleum shortage impacts it will concentrate minds wonderfully. But when it comes the window of opportunity could be brief and risky. If things deteriorate too far too fast there could easily be too much chaos for sense to prevail and for us to organize cooperative local alternative systems. […]
Peak Oil: Simplicity Has Its Disadvantages
Peak Oil: Simplicity Has Its Disadvantages Few of us appreciate just how much we rely upon inexpensive, readily-available supplies of energy to live our lives. [W]hat future awaits us if we cannot be courageous and honest enough to plan for that future with the full range and understanding of all the facts now at our […]
Peak Oil: The Underlying Reality
Peak Oil: The Underlying Reality Sir, Martin Wolf, in ‘Cheap oil puts humanity on a slippery slope’ (December 2) states: ‘The emergence of shale oil underlines what was already fairly clear, namely, that the global supply capacity is not only enormous but expanding. Forget peak oil.’ He is mistaken. Even the International Energy Agency acknowledges […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 2
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 2 In the end, does the choice of words really matter? The “Yes, we’ve reached Peak Oil” versus the “No, we have not” is a distraction—and I’ve done my part to contribute. But without recognizing and accepting the simple truth that we’re drawing down a finite and depleting resource […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 1
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 1 Remember, peaking in production, by definition, means that you have plenty of oil left. It has nothing to do with running out.…[T]he only people who ever use the phrase ‘running out of oil’ are people who either don’t understand Peak Oil, or people trying to mislead an audience […]
Peak Oil: Stark Realities
Peak Oil: Stark Realities We face a choice going forward. There’s a kind of false dichotomy, a false choice that we’re being presented between policies on the left or policies on the right. It’s not left or right, it’s forward or backward. It’s a choice between investing in the future, leaving […]
Peak Oil: Imagine
Peak Oil: Imagine Imagine what would happen if citizens took a moment or two to ponder the implications of the nonsense peddled to them daily by those public voices having decidedly different priorities than the public’s continued well-being…. Thanks to investment into supercomputers, robotics and the use of chemicals to extract […]
Peak Oil: Right Again [Pt 2]
Peak Oil: Right Again [Pt 2] We continue with an examination of the statements offered in a recent example of cherry-picked nonsense, an article entitled: “Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine — We’re Not Running Out.” The fine art of misleading the uninformed…. Delighted with the discovery that “Earth is actually an oil-producing […]
Right Again, Pt. 1
Right Again, Pt. 1 Human nature being what it is, predictably there are those who still harbor doubts about certain issues pertaining to current and future fossil fuel supplies. There is, however, no doubt that there’s an over-abundance of juvenile, fact-free nonsense passing as gospel truth from industry cheerleaders and media counterparts. To whose benefit […]
Absolutely Right
Absolutely Right Good to see that even after months on hiatus, not much changes on the Right, right? First up: The shale revolution has opened additional centuries of low-cost hydrocarbon resources to modern society…. The anti-fossil fuel environmental movement is in despair. For decades, proponents of the ideology of sustainable development preached that humanity was […]
