{"id":20368,"date":"2016-05-02T05:39:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20368"},"modified":"2016-05-02T05:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:43:50","slug":"peak-oil-are-we-not-better-than-this-pt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20368","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5<\/a>\"elConq022516D\"<\/h3>\n
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[T]he West\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0energy security is assured to a degree that has not existed in the past.
\nThat\u2019s good news for the American people and for the world, even if it is not news that Obama wants to hear.
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He doesn\u2019t? I wonder how that author knows this? Any chance it\u2019s instead just a variation of the same\u00a0let\u2019s-not-consider-facts-and-instead-just-make-stuff-up-to-\u201cprove\u201d-our-point-and-keep-the-followers-properly-agitated<\/em>\u00a0strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a century\u2019s worth of cheap, practical energy in hand, the global economy has a good chance of expanding.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A \u201cgood chance<\/em>\u201d?! And that would be based on \u2026\u00a0what<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What if we actually had meaningful discussions about the assertions contained in ExxonMobil\u2019s \u201cThe Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040\u201d\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0which the author of the above-quote focused on [in one of the two articles which serve as the foundation of this series]? What if it was finally agreed that just firing off assertions based on little more than conjecture, hope, or a let\u2019s-do-or-say-whatever-we-have-to animosity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason my grandchildren should not be living ten times as well as I am today. What stands in their way is not a lack of resources or technology \u2013 it\u2019s government. Specially, liberal government.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course that\u2019s the problem! Geology? Costs? An array of exploration, production, financial, and access considerations?\u00a0Nah!<\/em>\u00a0Just liberals in keeping with their still vast, double-top-super-duper-secret conspiracy to \u2026 do stuff that the Right doesn\u2019t approve of. We certainly don\u2019t want our children or grandchildren to have better opportunities and better lives than we\u2019ve enjoyed! Nope!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our focus continues to be solely on dealing with facts, raising concerns based on same, seeking options and alternatives, planning, preparing, and \u2026\u00a0wait! Where is that approach going to take all of us? Damn those facts!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 5 [T]he West\u2019s\u00a0energy security is assured to a degree that has not existed in the past. That\u2019s good news for the American people and for the world, even if it is not news that Obama wants to hear. He doesn\u2019t? I wonder how that author knows […]<\/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":[141,1946,4390,1648,379,584,11973,10552,965],"class_list":["post-20368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-security","tag-exxon","tag-facts","tag-government","tag-obama","tag-peak-oil-denial","tag-peak-oil-matters","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368","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=20368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20370,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20368\/revisions\/20370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}