{"id":61856,"date":"2022-02-12T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61856"},"modified":"2022-02-12T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:04:54","slug":"is-there-a-long-emergency-plan-for-peak-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61856","title":{"rendered":"Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nav-above\" class=\"navigation\">\n<h3 class=\"nav-next\"><a title=\"Permalink to Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?\" href=\"https:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2022\/is-there-a-long-emergency-plan-for-peak-oil\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-13808\" class=\"post-13808 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-agriculture-what-to-do category-indexofbestposts category-government category-guns category-over-oil tag-carrying-capacity tag-dawn-of-everything tag-emergency-plans tag-long-emergency tag-peak-oil-2 tag-war-2 tag-weapons\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Ever since I first learned about peak oil in 2000, the Master Resource that makes all other resources and activities possible, I\u2019ve wondered what The Plan to cope with its decline and eventual disappearance was. So it wouldn\u2019t be just a long emergency plan, but a permanent emergency plan.<\/p>\n<p>There have indeed been plans: Nixon launched \u201cProject Independence\u201d after the oil shock of 1973 to wean the U.S. from its dependence on imported oil by 1980 with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2011\/shale\/\">kerogen shale oil<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2020\/heavy-duty-hydrogen-fuel-cell-trucks-reduce-emissions-but-are-a-waste-of-energy-and-far-from-commercial\/\">hydrogen fuel vehicles<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/category\/energy\/nuclearpower\/\">nuclear power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When that didn\u2019t pan out, further government attempts were made to find alternatives for fossil fuels, for example (NRC 2009):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first-child\">Richard Nixon\u2019s \u201cProject Independence\u201d (1974)<\/li>\n<li>National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1974)<\/li>\n<li>Gerald Ford\u2019s \u201cEnergy Independence Act\u201d (1975)<\/li>\n<li>Energy Policy &amp; Conservation Act (1975) to restrict exports of coal, petroleum products, natural gas, petrochemical feedstocks, and supplies of materials and equipment for the exploration, production, refining, and transportation of energy.<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Carter\u2019s \u201cNational Energy Plan\u201d (1977)<\/li>\n<li>Department of Energy (1977)<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cEnergy Security\u201d report (1987)<\/li>\n<li>George H.W. Bush\u2019s \u201cNational Energy Strategy\u201d (1991)<\/li>\n<li>Bill Clinton\u2019s \u201cFederal Energy R&amp;D for the Challenges of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century\u201d report (1997)<\/li>\n<li>George W. Bush\u2019s \u201cReliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound Energy for America\u2019s Future\u201d report (2001).<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\">John Kerry\u2019s plan: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20040806_706.html\">Kerry Aims to Reduce Foreign Oil Reliance<\/a>,\u201d Associated Press (2004).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Senator Lugar pointed out in 2006 that despite Project Independence and other plans, the world has become more reliant on the three-quarters of reserves concentrated in unstable regions, where the risk of wars over remaining energy supplies will dramatically increase.<\/p>\n<p>Or as Jay Hanson (2004) once wrote: \u201cI am convinced thatafter the PROJECT INDEPENDENCE fiasco, our rulers reached the same conclusion I have: since no solution exists, there is no point in scaring Joe Six-pack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil? 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So it wouldn\u2019t be just a long emergency plan, but a [&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":[3,7],"tags":[11836,13159,11859,617,648],"class_list":["post-61856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-emergency-plans","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-peak-oil","tag-preparations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856","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=61856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61857,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856\/revisions\/61857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}