{"id":8552,"date":"2015-05-28T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2015-05-28T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:03:36","slug":"the-energy-gang-looks-at-the-shifting-peak-oil-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8552","title":{"rendered":"The Energy Gang looks at the shifting peak oil debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/peak-oil-in-an-era-of-fossil-fuel-abundance\" target=\"_blank\">The Energy Gang looks at the shifting peak oil debate<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Over the last few years, analysts and academics worried about peak oil have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1059978294\" target=\"_blank\">on the defensive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fracking revolution has brought an abundance of oil and gas that no one thought possible a decade ago. So we can declare peak oil dead, right?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Nelder, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreallist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">energy analyst<\/a>\u00a0who\u2019s written extensively on the subject,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/04\/13\/peak-oil-isnt-dead-an-interview-with-chris-nelder\/\" target=\"_blank\">has a simple answer<\/a>: no.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s show, we\u2019ll talk with Nelder about predicting the messy oil market and get his thoughts on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/future_tense\/2011\/12\/is_there_really_100_years_worth_of_natural_gas_beneath_the_united_states_.html\" target=\"_blank\">long-term viability<\/a>\u00a0of unconventional fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, we\u2019ll talk about Bank of America\u2019s decision to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2015\/05\/11\/this-2-trillion-bank-is-cutting-out-coal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">phase out<\/a>\u00a0its coal investments. And then we\u2019ll finish with a discussion of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/can-hawaii-reach-100-renewable-electricity-by-2040\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii\u2019s plan<\/a>\u00a0to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to listen to the podcast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Gang looks at the shifting peak oil debate Over the last few years, analysts and academics worried about peak oil have been\u00a0on the defensive. The fracking revolution has brought an abundance of oil and gas that no one thought possible a decade ago. So we can declare peak oil dead, right? Chris Nelder, [&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":[5772,5773,5771,331,412,617,5774],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-chris-nelder","tag-conventional-fossil-fuels","tag-energy-gang","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-peak-oil","tag-unconventional-fossil-fuels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","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=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions\/8553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}