{"id":1676,"date":"2014-11-16T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2014-11-16T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T14:27:56","slug":"shale-oil-crash-course-chapter-21-peak-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Shale Oil &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/blog\/88873\/shale-oil-crash-course-chapter-21\">Shale Oil &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">If you&#8217;ve watch the previous video chapter on\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #206282; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/video\/85856\/crash-course-chapter-20-peak-cheap-oil\" target=\"_blank\">Peak Cheap Oil<\/a>,\u00a0you may be wondering how any of that could be still be true given all the positive recent stories about shale oil and shale gas , many of which have proclaimed that \u201cPeak Oil is dead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The mainstream press has faithfully repeated every press and PR statement made by the shale producers. And if you simply followed the headlines, you might even believe\u00a0<em>this<\/em>\u00a0about the US:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc; padding: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 2px 35px;\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">It is soon going to be energy independent,<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Its oil production will surpass even Saudi Arabia putting it in the number one spot,and<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 19px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The US will even be exporting oil again like the days of old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The only problem with this story is that it is misleading in some very important ways. And entirely false in others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Here are there are five main things to know about the shale plays.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shale Oil &#8211; Crash Course Chapter 21 | Peak Prosperity. If you&#8217;ve watch the previous video chapter on\u00a0Peak Cheap Oil,\u00a0you may be wondering how any of that could be still be true given all the positive recent stories about shale oil and shale gas , many of which have proclaimed that \u201cPeak Oil is dead\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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],"tags":[174,961,617,723],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-crash-course","tag-peak-cheap-oil","tag-peak-oil","tag-shale-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}