{"id":5049,"date":"2015-01-30T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2015-01-30T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T13:21:47","slug":"the-latest-oil-glut-once-bitten-twice-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchange.net\/2015\/01\/27\/heinberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/richardheinberg.com\/bookshelf\/snake-oil\"><em>Snake Oil: How Fracking\u2019s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. With the recent plunge in oil prices, it feels like the right time to check back in with Richard Heinberg of the Post-Carbon Institute and get his perspective on how plunging oil prices will affect the energy and transportation industries.\u00a0<span id=\"more-6933\"><\/span>Heinberg and host\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Wise\">Alex Wise<\/a>\u00a0discuss the impact of cheap oil on the North American natural gas boom, how it may alter consumer behavior in the near term, and the need for sound policy to guide us through the long-term challenge of living in a post-carbon world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to listen to the podcast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled\u00a0Snake Oil: How Fracking\u2019s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future\u00a0is a critic of the natural gas industry and a proponent of peak oil theory. With the recent plunge in oil prices, it feels like the [&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],"tags":[588,3044,596,640,1081],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-oil","tag-oil-glut","tag-oil-supply","tag-post-carbon-world","tag-richard-heinberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}