{"id":88,"date":"2008-05-24T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-05-24T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:34:55","slug":"hear-the-hoofbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/05\/24\/hear-the-hoofbeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the hoofbeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One horseman of the apocalypse is global warming, another is peak oil, and the hoofbeats of each are now loud enough that we can&#8217;t really pretend we don&#8217;t hear anything. The story of global warming is fairly well known, thanks in large part to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">Al Gore<\/a>. The story of peak oil, on the other hand, although gaining in prominence, is largely overlooked, even as crude oil pushes past $130\/barrel and gasoline tops $4\/gallon. Perhaps this is because Americans can imagine living in a world in which the global warming catastrophe has happened (hey, just turn the AC up!) but can&#8217;t imagine a world in which we can&#8217;t each consume more than a gallon a day of gasoline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/4041\">A succinct summary of the peak oil story<\/a> has been (re-)posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/theoildrum.com\">The Oil Drum<\/a>, which is perhaps the leading site for\u00a0oil news and peak oil discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One horseman of the apocalypse is global warming, another is peak oil, and the hoofbeats of each are now loud enough that we can&#8217;t really pretend we don&#8217;t hear anything. The story of global warming is fairly well known, thanks in large part to Al Gore. The story of peak oil, on the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}