Crash Course Chapter 17a: Peak Oil You are missing some Flash
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we’re up to the chapter on Peak Oil, and this one is a doozy. If
you think all the way back to Chapter 3, I said I was going to
connect the Three “Es,” and we are now about to connect the
Economy to Energy. This is one of the most important chapters,
this is a big subject, and I wish to acknowledge that much of
this chapter stands on the shoulders of the hundreds of
dedicated people who have gathered the data, made the points,
and tirelessly worked to advance our understanding of the role
of energy in our lives. I tip my hat to these sources and many
others. Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. But when an
economy is based on an exponential debt-based money system, and
that is based on exponentially increasing energy supplies, the
supply of that energy therefore deserves our very highest
attention. And when we look at US energ