{"id":60980,"date":"2021-12-17T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60980"},"modified":"2021-12-17T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:15:24","slug":"it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way-lessons-from-the-slow-death-of-louisianas-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60980","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u2019: Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana\u2019s oil industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018It doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u2019: Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana\u2019s oil industry<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Gulf Coast is bleeding oil jobs. Here\u2019s what it tells us about a just transition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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David Dismukes studies the energy industry for a living. As the executive director of the Center for Energy Studies at Louisiana State University, he has spent the last 30 years pinpointing the industry\u2019s challenges and theorizing around it\u2019s rapidly changing future.<\/p>\n

This is what he wants you to know: The energy transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind sources is real. \u201cIt\u2019s happening and it\u2019s gonna continue to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re right, wrong, for, or against,\u201d said Dismukes. \u201cPeople and industries are making, not just hundreds of millions, but billion-dollar decisions based on the belief that this transition is here.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0creating<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and taking away \u2013 jobs,\u00a0swaying the economy<\/a>, and\u00a0transforming how we commute<\/a>. The transition is also killing refineries, to the sounds of praise from environmental groups and uncertainty from the thousands of oil industry workers.<\/p>\n

In January 2020, a few months before the first coronavirus pandemic shutdown, the American oil refining industry reached its\u00a0highest capacity peak<\/a>\u00a0in history. It didn\u2019t last long. Within months,\u00a0six refineries<\/a>, including the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia \u2013 the 13th largest in the country \u2013 shut off oil production. By December, U.S. oil consumption reached a\u00a025-year low<\/a>. In the next two years, Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting group, forecasts that\u00a020 refineries across the globe<\/a>, including roughly a dozen in the U.S., will cease operations.<\/p>\n

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\u2018It doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u2019: Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana\u2019s oil industry The Gulf Coast is bleeding oil jobs. Here\u2019s what it tells us about a just transition. AP Photo\/Cheryl Gerber David Dismukes studies the energy industry for a living. As the executive director of the Center for Energy Studies at […]<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[32312,15759,2034,1278],"class_list":["post-60980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-adam-mahoney","tag-grist","tag-louisiana","tag-oil-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60980","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=60980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60981,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60980\/revisions\/60981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}