{"id":3179,"date":"2008-01-28T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2008-01-28T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T01:00:01","slug":"a_conversation_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation About Peak Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/2008-02-01\/webextra4.php\">Nicholas Jackson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>NATE HAGENS is an editor of The Oil Drum, an online community that seeks to raise awareness about energy issues. A Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, Hagens\u2019s particular areas of interest are the principles of net energy and the bio-physiological factors that drive our energy demand.<br \/>\nMATT SAVINAR is the editor and writer of Life After the Oil Crash, a blog which paints a bleak picture of what life on earth will look like when natural oil supplies run out. Savinar recently received his J.D. from the University of California at Hastings College of the Law, and his work is quoted extensively on the floor of the United States Congress.<br \/>\n<strong>One article in this month\u2019s issue of Texas Monthly centers on Matthew Simmons, a Houston investment banker described as the most fervent apostle behind the idea of peak oil. How does the apocalyptic world that Simmons and other energy pessimists foresee in the near future\u2014massive food shortages, a falling standard of living, wars\u2014compare to your own predictions? What does the world look like with less oil?<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/2008-02-01\/webextra4.php\">Nicholas Jackson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>NATE HAGENS is an editor of The Oil Drum, an online community that seeks to raise awareness about energy issues. A Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, Hagens\u2019s particular areas of interest are the principles of net energy and the bio-physiological factors that drive our energy demand.<br \/>\nMATT SAVINAR is the editor and writer of Life After the Oil Crash, a blog which paints a bleak picture of what life on earth will look like when natural oil supplies run out. Savinar recently received his J.D. from the University of California at Hastings College of the Law, and his work is quoted extensively on the floor of the United States Congress.<br \/>\n<strong>One article in this month\u2019s issue of Texas Monthly centers on Matthew Simmons, a Houston investment banker described as the most fervent apostle behind the idea of peak oil. How does the apocalyptic world that Simmons and other energy pessimists foresee in the near future\u2014massive food shortages, a falling standard of living, wars\u2014compare to your own predictions? What does the world look like with less oil?<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}