{"id":16691,"date":"2016-01-19T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16691"},"modified":"2016-01-19T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:00:23","slug":"when-trucks-stop-running-so-does-civilization-energy-and-the-future-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16691","title":{"rendered":"When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2016\/when-trucks-stop-running-so-does-civilization\/when_trucks_stop_running_book_cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6434 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/when_trucks_stop_running_book_cover.jpg\" alt=\"when_trucks_stop_running_book_cover\" width=\"229\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2016\/when-trucks-stop-running-so-does-civilization\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/strong>.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Also see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2016\/when-trucks-stop-running-table-of-contents-preface-references\/\">When Trucks Stop Running: Table of Contents, Preface, References<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Virtually everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck. Prior to that, 90 percent of those items were transported on a ship and\/or a train. If trucks, trains, and ships stopped running, our global economy and way of life would stop too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The impact of peak oil on commercial transportation has been of great interest to me after a 22-year career at American President Lines, where I developed computer systems to keep cargo seamlessly moving around the globe and just-in-time between ships, rail, trucks, and customers.<\/p>\n<p>So I was thrilled when Charles Hall invited me to write a book on energy and transportation for his Springer Energy series, a book that has just been published:\u00a0<strong><em>When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. This is a dependency we take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Since oil reserves are finite, one day supplies will be diminished to where the cost of moving freight and goods with our present oil-fueled fleet will not pencil out. We have an oil glut in 2016 and a corresponding lack of urgency. Yet, inevitably the day will come when oil supplies decline. What will we do? What are our options? That is the sobering reality my book explores.<\/p>\n<p>Consider just how dependent we are on abundant and affordable oil, which fuels commercial transportation: Grocery stores, service stations, hospitals, pharmacies, restaurants, construction sites, manufacturers, and many other businesses receive several deliveries a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization. Energy and the Future of Transportation. Also see:\u00a0When Trucks Stop Running: Table of Contents, Preface, References Virtually everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck. Prior to that, 90 percent of those items were transported on a ship and\/or a train. If trucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[11836,11837,4856,1263,10303],"class_list":["post-16691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energyskeptic-com","tag-shipping","tag-transportation","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16692,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions\/16692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}