{"id":3477,"date":"2006-07-27T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2006-07-27T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T08:12:00","slug":"pity-those-who-are-young-at-that-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Pity those who are young at that time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/story\/2006\/7\/26\/133241\/680\">The Oil Drum | A Letter from the TOD Editors Box&#8230;<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m 24 years old and for as long as I&#8217;ve known what it was I&#8217;ve been concerned about peak oil and about the potential consequences for my country (the U.S.) and the world as a whole. The thing that keeps me up at night the most is the feeling that there is nothing I can do to stop us from sleepwalking over the edge of a cliff. &#8230;My question is what can I, as an individual do to prepare myself to survive peak oil?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lots of questions and answers at The Oil Drum.<\/p>\n<p>See in particular the post from Matt Savinar (AlphaMale Prophet of Doom) about a third of the way down, from which I extract this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the decline rate is 4%, that halves production in 17.5 years or so. On top of the usual decline rate, I think it reasonable to expect further\/additional disruptions due to war\/terrorism and weather. (More Katrina-type events) So that bumps it up to 6% let&#8217;s say, halving the supply in 11.5 years. If the decline rate is 8% (as some have speculated) plus anohter 2-3% due to terrorism\/war and weather plus then we&#8217;re looking at a 50% cut in 7 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8216;some have speculated&#8217; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slb.com\/\">Schlumberger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oil Drum | A Letter from the TOD Editors Box&#8230;: &#8220;I&#8217;m 24 years old and for as long as I&#8217;ve known what it was I&#8217;ve been concerned about peak oil and about the potential consequences for my country (the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-U5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}