{"id":19393,"date":"2016-04-01T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:15:23","slug":"peak-oil-are-we-not-better-than-this-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19393","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ll confess that I hesitated before starting this series. It was too easy to\u00a0again<\/em>\u00a0just 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\u2019s also the gateway to yet another round of verbal grenade lobbing which generates a lot of high-five\u2019s with fellow ideologues, but little else.]<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve contributed my share of mocking on numerous occasions, to be sure. It\u2019s just part of the ongoing Left-Right hostilities\u2026.Tiresome. Pointless. Embarrassing. Damaging \u2026 always.<\/p>\n

That exercise would have been gratifying to me, but only me.\u00a0I<\/em>\u00a0need to have a more enlightened response to the question posed above. Doing more of the same will produce more of the same, and few of us seem to be benefitting from that strategy these days.<\/p>\n

At first glance the subject matter of this series [Friday-only, and for a number of weeks to follow] may seem to be yet another opportunity to take down yet another [two, actually] light-on-facts, right-wing Happy Talk offerings generated for public consumption. Like so many others of similar content and intent, they played well to the far reaches of the Right, judging by most of the comments, and they were consistent with the messages offered in opposition to all things Obama and\/or progressives.<\/p>\n

Neither those comments nor the material offered by the two writers for their respective conservative publications [American Thinker<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Townhall<\/em>, to be discussed later in this series] were much different than countless others supporting the same essential message: but for President Obama, America would be great,\u00a0yadda<\/em>,\u00a0yadda<\/em>,\u00a0yadda<\/em>; and we have more than enough energy resources available to us for almost forever,\u00a0yadda<\/em>,\u00a0yadda<\/em>,\u00a0yadda<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 1 I\u2019ll confess that I hesitated before starting this series. It was too easy to\u00a0again\u00a0just 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\u2019s also the gateway […]<\/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],"tags":[13213,13215,1426,584,617,11973,10552,655,13214],"class_list":["post-19393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-american-thinker","tag-happy-talk","tag-misinformation","tag-obama","tag-peak-oil","tag-peak-oil-denial","tag-peak-oil-matters","tag-propaganda","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393","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=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19394,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions\/19394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}