{"id":1893,"date":"2014-11-21T06:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2014-11-21T06:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:53:36","slug":"peak-oil-so-how-do-we-prepare-peak-oil-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peakoilmatters.com\/2014\/11\/18\/peak-oil-prepare\/\">Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/peakoilmatters.com\/wp-content\/themes\/rt\/images\/blockquote.gif'); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #edf1f5; word-wrap: break-word; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; background-position: 3px 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 8px 12px 8px 40px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px; border: 1px solid #dddddd;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">The economic effects of peak oil are as obvious as they are frightening. The most immediate effect is to increase oil prices, and this has its own effect of slowing the economy down. There was a period in which Saudi Arabia could modulate the world\u2019s rate of oil production by turning up the flow, but even that is a thing of the past. Oil prices jump up and down in response to rumors and temporary conditions \u2014 the worldwide economic slowdown has tamped them down a bit over the past few years \u2014 but the overall pattern is a steady price increase, all other things being equal\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">We should understand that peak oil has probably already occurred, and we will be spending the rest of our lives, and our children their own lives, dealing with the consequences.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">But we avoid the long term relevancies. There was plenty of oil yesterday and there will be enough today to maintain a modest lifestyle, and we all hope that there won\u2019t be another big oil shock very soon\u2026.How do we prepare? [1]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">A nice summary of where we are, what we face, and a question for which there is not much of an answer at the moment. In and of itself, that\u2019s a problem.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dispute over facts aside, another problem the author cites is likely to be an even more difficult challenge in our attempts to prepare for a transition away from fossil fuel dependence.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Oil: So How Do We Prepare? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters. The economic effects of peak oil are as obvious as they are frightening. The most immediate effect is to increase oil prices, and this has its own effect of slowing the economy down. 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